Maltese Cross postage due · rough-surfaced paper · 1/6

Technical details

Issuing authority

Malta Post Office

Postal purpose

Postage due

Currency

GBP pre-decimal

Designer

Not documented

Printer

Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co.

Printing process

Not documented

Stamp dimensions

Not documented

Perforation

12 (line)

Watermark

Not documented

Paper

Rough-surfaced paper

Colour

Not documented

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

The specimen-based study explicitly attributes this date and physical group. Independent contemporary corroboration of the first-sale day and specialist examination of the physical stamp remain open.

Research notes: The sideways watermark is classified as type 4 in the cited study, the same classification as the 1925 unsurfaced paper. This group counts a physical paper change, not the shade variations. The 2d is dated only 1937 and ½d only 1941 because the scan obscures part of the day. The 1d and 1/- are attributed to 9 April 1943; the other six values to 26 June 1946. Printer attribution is supported by the contemporary Said account (printed p16), which identifies Bradbury Wilkinson as printers of these permanent dues since1925. This is a historical attribution; original production invoices and physical printing-process confirmation remain open.

• John De Battista, Malta Postage Due Adhesive Stamps, PSM38(3), printed pp6–7: specimen-based physical classification ↗
• E. Said, The New Malta Postage Dues, PSM2(4), Winter1969, printed p16 (PDFp18): historical printer attribution ↗

Image & attribution

Image permission not established

Basic postage-due denomination/design types and documented major paper, watermark or perforation changes. Shade-only printings, plate flaws, errors, tête-bêche arrangements, multiples and unchanged reprints are excluded. Independent specialist verification remains open.