Shield · 1½d

Technical details

Issuing authority

Malta Post Office

Postal purpose

Postage

Currency

GBP pre-decimal

Designer

John Harrison

Printer

Waterlow & Sons

Printing process

Typography

Stamp dimensions

Not documented

Perforation

Not documented

Watermark

Multiple Script CA

Paper

Not documented

Colour

Chestnut

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

Basic value supported by the illustrated exhibit. Exact shade and finer technical characteristics are not assigned.

• Malta: The Cinderella Set — King George V 1926–1939; illustrated exhibit and Crown Agents Plate Register research ↗
• Carmel G. Bonavia, Annus Paulinus 2008–2009: Saint Paul — A Protagonist in Maltese Philately, JMPS37(3), pp.15–17 ↗
• The Canadian Philatelist, Vol.15 No.5 (1964), printed pp.218–219: 1922 overprint sizes and red ink; 1926–1927 values and colours; 1928 AIR MAIL continuation ↗

Image & attribution

Image permission not established

Seventeen base denomination/design combinations from 1926–1927, excluding shades and later overprinted or reinscribed issues. The issue date is the start of release, not a shared date for all values.