MALTA1dVerdala Palace · Grey · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
1953MALTA1½dĦal Saflieni Hypogeum · Green · Self-Government 1947Image unavailable
Image permission not established
1953 / Archaeology
Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum · Green · Self-Government 1947
Self-Government 1947 · new colours
Denomination1½d
Issue date1953-01-08
The story behind the issue
Six overprinted values appeared in revised colours while Malta awaited its new Elizabeth II definitives. The stamps retain the George VI pictorial designs.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Overprint / surcharge
- SELF-GOVERNMENT 1947
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Waterlow & Sons
- Printing process
- Recess printing
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 12½
- Watermark
- Multiple Script CA
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Green
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Verified- The Postage Stamps of Malta, The Canadian Philatelist 15(5), September–October 1964, printed p.219 / PDF p.25: red overprint on the 1953 1d, 3d and 4½d recolours ↗
- Carmel G. Bonavia · Annus Paulinus 2008–2009, Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society 37(3), pp. 17–19 ↗
- 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
Image permission not established
All six recoloured overprinted values. Base issued design/value/colour combinations only. Printing flaws, shade gradations, specimens, proofs and other specialist varieties excluded.
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