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1966 / Historical figures
Churchill and the Maltese Cross · 2d
Sir Winston Churchill · memorial
Denomination2d
Issue date1966-01-24
The story behind the issue
Four portrait designs combine Churchill with Maltese wartime symbols.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Emvin Cremona
- Printer
- Not documented
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Not documented
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Verified- Lois L. Corbin · Fine Arts on Malta Stamps, Part IV, JMPS 10(3), pp. 15–16, 21 ↗
- Philatelic Society of Malta newsletter 1(1), Spring 1967, pp. 9–10 · contemporary full denomination lists ↗
- Alfred Bonnici · illustrated original Churchill and George Cross first-day covers, JMPS 33(2), p. 13 ↗
- Stamps Plus · original Dante, Churchill and Valletta complete first-day covers illustrated ↗
Image & attribution
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All 4 basic issued design/value combinations in this group. Specialist shades, printing errors, proof/specimen material and presentation formats excluded.