Colour front scan cropped from a historical stamp album; representative visible design, denomination and colour, not watermark, paper, perforation or shade authentication
1937 / Historical figures
George VI and Queen Elizabeth · Green
Coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth
Denomination½d
Issue date1937-05-12
The story behind the issue
Three stamps mark the coronation with a shared royal portrait design.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- De La Rue
- Printer
- Not documented
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Not documented
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Green
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Verified- Carmel Bonnici · British Monarchs on Maltese Stamps (2), The Melite Post 3 (2017), pp. 3 and 5 ↗
- Paul Voller collection · 1937 Coronation omnibus, Malta section ↗
Image & attribution
British Government / Malta Post Office; original-stamp album scan by Philafrenzy via Wikimedia Commons; cropped to individual stamp · Public domain — expired UK Crown copyright (PD-UKGov), expressly stated on source file page
All 3 basic issued design/value/colour combinations in this commemorative group. Excludes specimens, proofs, flaws and specialist printing varieties.