Nicolas Cotoner monument · Elizabeth II · Salmon

Technical details

Issuing authority

Malta Post Office

Postal purpose

Postage

Currency

GBP pre-decimal

Designer

Waterlow & Sons

Printer

Waterlow & Sons

Printing process

Recess printing

Stamp dimensions

Not documented

Perforation

Not documented

Watermark

Multiple Script CA

Paper

Not documented

Colour

Salmon

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

Contemporary May–June 1956 notice pairs the 3d and 2/6 on 22 March; its printed wording is “replaced for sale”. Read as the new-value release in context: March notice excludes both from its eight initial denominations, and Corbin independently explicitly dates the 2/6 issue to 22 March 1956. The previous 2/6 January date is superseded.

• The Canadian Philatelist · September–October 1964, pp. 221–223 (Crown Agents Bulletin) ↗
• Carmel G. Bonavia · Annus Paulinus 2008–2009, JMPS 37(3), pp. 19–25 ↗
• Carmel Bonnici · British Monarchs on Maltese Stamps, The Melite Post 4 (2017), p. 3 ↗
• Charles Savona-Ventura · Maltese Medical History as Seen through Postage Stamps (1998), pp. 9–13 ↗
• M. E. Jetten · The £1 Stamps of Malta, JPSM 1(3) (1967), p. 17 ↗
• John V. De Battista · The Visits of H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth II to Malta, JMPS 50(3), p. 10 · Les Gavroches definitive date ↗
• The Canadian Philatelist, Vol. 7 No. 5, May–June 1956, printed p. 11 (PDF p. 13): specific 3d and 2/6 sale notice ↗
• Lois L. Corbin, Fine Arts on Malta Stamps, JMPS 9(3), printed p. 17 (PDF p. 4): Cotoner 2/6 issued 22 March 1956 ↗
• The Canadian Philatelist, Vol. 7 No. 3, March 1956, printed p. 9 (PDF p. 16): Record of New Issues ↗
• Anthony Grech, Marian Stamp Album, supplement 2 (2003), PDF p. 1: 1956 church pair and changed-watermark reissues ↗
• M. E. Jetten, The £1 stamps of Malta, PSM magazine 1(3), autumn 1967, printed pp.17–18 (full PDF pp.19–20) ↗

Image & attribution

Image permission not established

All seventeen original basic design/value combinations. Later Block CA reissues and specialist shade, watermark-orientation and plate varieties excluded.