MALTA½dHMS St Angelo · Red-brownImage unavailable
1943
Colour front scan cropped from a historical stamp album; representative visible design, denomination and colour, not watermark, paper, perforation or shade authentication
1943 / Places & architecture
Saint John’s Co-Cathedral · Bright blue
George VI pictorial definitives · new colours
Denomination3d
Issue date1943-03-08
The story behind the issue
Six low values retain their pictorial subjects while adopting a revised colour scheme. These are distinct issued colour versions of the earlier designs.
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
- Bright blue
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Verified- The Canadian Philatelist · Vol. 15 No. 5 (September–October 1964), p. 219 ↗
- MaltaPost Philately · 1943 recolour record, 8 March 1943 ↗
- Gozo Philatelic Society Newsletter 71 · Cittadella stamp chronology, p. 7 ↗
- Anthony Grech, Marian Stamp Album, supplement 2 (2003), PDF p. 1: four George VI 2d stamps and line perforation ↗
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 six colour changes. Base issued design/value/colour combinations only. Printing flaws, shade gradations, specimens, proofs and other specialist varieties excluded.
