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1928 / Aviation
George V · AIR MAIL
First airmail overprint
Denomination6d
Issue date1928-04-01
The story behind the issue
The sixpenny shield design received an AIR MAIL overprint for the introduction of Malta’s civilian airmail service.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Overprint / surcharge
- AIR MAIL
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Government Printing Office, Valletta (overprint); Waterlow & Sons (base stamp)
- Printing process
- Typography (base stamp)
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Multiple Script CA
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Scarlet
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedThe AIR MAIL surcharge is applied to the sixpence of the 1926–1927 series; the cited continuous account identifies that base value as scarlet, typographed and on Multiple Script CA paper. The process of applying the AIR MAIL overprint is not inferred.
- Malta: The Cinderella Set — King George V 1926–1939; illustrated exhibit and Crown Agents Plate Register research ↗
- Postage stamps and postal history of Malta — secondary date cross-check ↗
- South African Philatelist, June 2022, Malta historical study p.97 ↗
- 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
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One basic overprint; shades and varieties excluded.
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