AN INDEPENDENT ARCHIVE OF MALTESE STAMPS POSTAGE SINCE 1860 · MALTA & GOZO
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Gozo boat · 2/6 · 2/6

Authentic colour front scan matching visible denomination/design; not watermark, paper, perforation or shade authentication

1926 / Heritage

Gozo boat · 2/6

George V shield and pictorial definitives — POSTAGE

Denomination2/6
Issue date1926
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The story behind the issue

Portrait-and-shield low values accompanied seven engraved Maltese subjects. These designs were issued progressively through 1927.

Technical details

Issuing authority
Malta Post Office
Postal purpose
Postage
Currency
GBP pre-decimal
Designer
John Harrison
Printer
Waterlow & Sons
Printing process
Recess printing
Stamp dimensions
Not documented
Perforation
Not documented
Watermark
Multiple Script CA
Paper
Not documented
Colour
Black and vermilion
Quantity
Not documented

Sources & verification

Partially verified

Subject and value corroborated by specialist archival research. Shade and individual printing are outside this record.

Image & attribution

UK/Malta Post Office (stamp); Gwillhickers / Commons, scan from eBay item 160480581777 · Public domain — PD-UKGov expressly declared on exact Commons file page; colonial design published 1926

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.

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