Maltese Cross postage due · chalk-surfaced paper · ½d

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

Chalk-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: Five values (½d,1d,1½d,3d,4d) are attributed to 5 November 1953; the 2d to 20 March 1957. The study classifies sideways watermark type 4. Later 1957,1961,1962 and1963 printings differentiated only by shade are excluded from this bounded physical-type inventory. 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.