AN INDEPENDENT ARCHIVE OF MALTESE STAMPS POSTAGE SINCE 1860 · MALTA & GOZO
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Grand Harbour · 1/- · revised inscription · 1/-

Authentic colour scan. The Commons filename says 1926; the visible revised integral POSTAGE / REVENUE inscription matches the 1930 design.

1930 / Heritage

Grand Harbour · 1/- · revised inscription

George V — revised Postage and Revenue inscriptions

Denomination1/-
Issue date1930-10-20
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The story behind the issue

Revised inscriptions incorporated dual-purpose use into the design itself. The series continued until the George VI replacement.

Technical details

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

Malta Government / Malta Post Office; scan uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Philafrenzy · Public domain — Commons explicitly declares PD-UKGov for this historical government work; published 1930, more than 70 years ago

Seventeen base values only. Shades, plate flaws, specimens and printing quantities excluded.

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