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1930 / Heritage
Shield · 6d · revised inscription
George V — revised Postage and Revenue inscriptions
Denomination6d
Issue date1930-10-20
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 verifiedBasic 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 ↗
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
Seventeen base values only. Shades, plate flaws, specimens and printing quantities excluded.
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