MALTA3dHouses of Parliament and George VI · BlueImage unavailable
1946
Colour front scan cropped from a historical stamp album; representative visible design, denomination and colour, not watermark, paper, perforation or shade authentication
1946 / Heritage
Houses of Parliament and George VI · Green
Allied Victory
Denomination1d
Issue date1946-12-03
The story behind the issue
The London Parliament and George VI appear above Malta’s name, flanked by a Maltese Cross and a George Cross.
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 ↗
- The Canadian Philatelist · September–October 1964, pp. 219 and 221 ↗
- King George VI Collectors Society · auction 21, original Malta Victory first-day cover, lot 482 ↗
- Paul Voller collection · 1946 Victory, 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 2 basic issued design/value/colour combinations in this commemorative group. Excludes specimens, proofs, flaws and specialist printing varieties.