Mnajdra ruins · Olive-green and bright blue · Self-Government 1947

Technical details

Issuing authority

Malta Post Office

Postal purpose

Postage

Currency

GBP pre-decimal

Overprint / surcharge

SELF-GOVERNMENT 1947 — red ink

Designer

Not documented

Printer

Waterlow & Sons

Printing process

Recess printing

Stamp dimensions

Not documented

Perforation

12½

Watermark

Multiple Script CA

Paper

Not documented

Colour

Olive-green and bright blue

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

The 1964 Canadian Philatelist study explicitly names the red overprint on this 1953 recoloured denomination. Its existing red-ink metadata is made visible in the overprint description; reading direction is not inferred from the separate 1948 issue.

• 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.