Tarxien temples · Elizabeth II · Greyish blue

Technical details

Issuing authority

Malta Post Office

Postal purpose

Postage

Currency

GBP pre-decimal

Designer

Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co.

Printer

Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co.

Printing process

Recess printing

Stamp dimensions

Not documented

Perforation

Not documented

Watermark

Multiple Script CA

Paper

Not documented

Colour

Greyish blue

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

The contemporary April 1956 new-issues notice explicitly lists this value among the four placed on sale on 9 February 1956.

• 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. 4, April 1956, printed p. 8 (PDF p. 10): 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.