MALTA1dOur Lady of Victory Church · Elizabeth II · Block CAImage unavailable
1963MALTA2dMosta Dome · Elizabeth II · Block CAImage unavailable
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1963–1964 / Places & architecture
Mosta Dome · Elizabeth II · Block CA
Elizabeth II definitives · Block CA reissues
Denomination2d
Issue date1963–1964
Only this release range is established; the individual issue year remains unverified.
The story behind the issue
The two church designs return on paper carrying the Block CA watermark. The Mosta value’s individual release year remains under review.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co.
- Printer
- Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co.
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 11.5 × 11.7 (reported measurement)
- Watermark
- Multiple Crown CA (block capitals)
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Brown
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedGrech groups both values on 15 October 1963; the wider issue chronology places the two reissues across 1963–1964. The individual Mosta release needs official confirmation. 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.
- Anthony Grech, Marian Stamp Album, supplement 2 (2003), PDF p. 1: 1956 church pair and changed-watermark reissues ↗
- Zeboose · original 1d Victory Church imprint and plate 2a block ↗
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
Both basic church values identified on the changed watermark. Specialist shades and watermark orientations excluded. The 2d release date is unresolved within 1963–1964.