Authentic colour front scan; illustrative design/value match, not authentication of watermark, paper, perforation or exact shade
1938 / Places & architecture
Verdala Palace · Red-brown
George VI pictorial definitives · original colours
Denomination1d
Issue date1938-02-17
The story behind the issue
Fifteen values pair Maltese landmarks, sculpture and traditional dress with the new monarch. The farthing shows Grand Harbour with the royal monogram.
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
- 12½
- Watermark
- Multiple Script CA
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Red-brown
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Verified- The Canadian Philatelist · Vol. 15 No. 5 (September–October 1964), p. 219 ↗
- Carmel G. Bonavia · Annus Paulinus 2008–2009, Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society 37(3), pp. 17–19 ↗
- MaltaPost Philately · 1938 Grand Harbour ¼d ↗
- MaltaPost Philately · 1938 Saint Publius 1s6d ↗
- John M. Calleja, Antonius Manoel de Vilhena, JMPS30(2), August2001, specimen-study technical panels: printed pp6 and9 ↗
- Anthony Grech, Marian Stamp Album, supplement 2 (2003), PDF p. 1: four George VI 2d stamps and line perforation ↗
Image & attribution
British colonial stamp artwork; scan by Stan Shebs, August 2005, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain — expired UK Crown copyright (PD-UKGov), explicitly declared on exact Commons file page; pre-1949 colonial artwork
All fifteen original values. Base issued design/value/colour combinations only. Printing flaws, shade gradations, specimens, proofs and other specialist varieties excluded.
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