Our Lady of Victory Church · Elizabeth II · Black

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

11.5 × 11.7 (reported measurement)

Watermark

Multiple Script CA

Paper

Not documented

Colour

Black

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. Grech’s Marian Stamp Album supplement 2, PDF p. 1, reports 11.5 × 11.7 for the 1956 1d/2d church stamps, and states that only the watermark changed for the later two reissues. The measured numbers are retained as reported rather than silently rounded or extended to other values. Existing individual date precision remains unchanged.

• 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.