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Shield · 3d · revised inscription · 3d

Authentic colour front scan; illustrative design/value match, not authentication of watermark, paper, perforation or exact shade

1930 / Heritage

Shield · 3d · revised inscription

George V — revised Postage and Revenue inscriptions

Denomination3d
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
Typography
Stamp dimensions
Not documented
Perforation
Not documented
Watermark
Multiple Script CA
Paper
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Quantity
Not documented

Sources & verification

Partially verified

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

Image & attribution

The National Archives of Malta; crop of stamp on Carmelo Borg Pisani passport application dated 6 July 1932; via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain — Malta government artistic work published more than 70 years ago, explicitly declared by exact Commons file page; original design published 1930

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

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