Maltese Cross postage due · Block CA watermark · 2d

Technical details

Issuing authority

Not documented

Postal purpose

Postage due

Currency

GBP pre-decimal

Designer

Not documented

Printer

Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co.

Printing process

Not documented

Stamp dimensions

Not documented

Perforation

12 (line)

Watermark

Block CA (sideways)

Paper

Chalk-surfaced paper

Colour

Not documented

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

The specimen-based study explicitly attributes this date and physical group. Independent contemporary corroboration of the first-sale day and specialist examination of the physical stamp remain open.

Research notes: The specimen study attributes 1 October 1966 and sideways watermark type 5. The contemporary Said article explicitly identifies the predecessor 2d as Block CA, but describes collectors being presented with it in November without independently establishing its original first-sale day. The date remains an attributed specialist date, not a contemporaneously verified release notice. Printer attribution is supported by the contemporary Said account (printed p16), which identifies Bradbury Wilkinson as printers of these permanent dues since1925. This is a historical attribution; original production invoices and physical printing-process confirmation remain open.

• John De Battista, Malta Postage Due Adhesive Stamps, PSM38(3), printed pp6–7: specimen-based physical classification ↗
• E. Said, The New Malta Postage Dues, PSM2(4), Winter1969, printed p16 (PDFp18): historical printer attribution ↗

Image & attribution

Image permission not established

Basic postage-due denomination/design types and documented major paper, watermark or perforation changes. Shade-only printings, plate flaws, errors, tête-bêche arrangements, multiples and unchanged reprints are excluded. Independent specialist verification remains open.