Authentic colour scan; source identifies issue, denomination and colour. Watermark and paper cannot be authenticated from the front image.
1926 / Heritage
Melita · POSTAGE · ½d
Melita — POSTAGE overprints
Denomination½d
Issue date1926-04-01
The story behind the issue
Separating postage from fiscal use prompted an overprint on the current Melita values. A replacement definitive series began appearing shortly afterwards.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Edward Caruana Dingli
- Printer
- Government Printing Office, Valletta (overprint); De La Rue (base stamps)
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Multiple Script CA
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedBasic issued overprint type; exact shade and overprint setting require specimen-level identification.
- Anthony Fenech, Edward Caruana Dingli’s Melita stamps, PSM Journal 30(1), 2001, pp.3–7 ↗
- Melita issue — secondary chronology cross-check ↗
Image & attribution
Malta Post Office (stamp issuer) Edward Caruana Dingli (stamp designer) eBay seller dealingstamps (scan) · Public domain — expired UK Crown copyright (PD-UKGov)
Fourteen basic issued values, excluding the unissued £1, errors, shifted overprints and minor shades.
