MALTA1½dBombed-out family · Blue-green, black and silverImage unavailable
1958MALTA3dSea raid on Grand Harbour · Red, black and silverImage unavailable
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1958 / Heritage
Sea raid on Grand Harbour · Red, black and silver
George Cross · sixteenth anniversary
Denomination3d
Issue date1958-04-15
The story behind the issue
The second George Cross set depicts the human and military experience of the siege.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Emvin Cremona
- Printer
- Harrison & Sons
- Printing process
- Photogravure
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Multiple St Edward’s Crown CA
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Red, black and silver
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Verified- The Canadian Philatelist · September–October 1964, pp. 221–223 (Crown Agents Bulletin) ↗
- JMPS 33(2), August 2004 · original George Cross first-day covers, pp. 10–12 ↗
Image & attribution
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All 3 basic issued design/value combinations in this group. Excludes proofs, specimens, errors, specialist shades and later reprints.