MALTA½dMaltese Cross postage due · line12 · ½dImage unavailable
1967MALTA4dMaltese Cross postage due · line12 · 4dImage unavailable
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1967 / Heritage
Maltese Cross postage due · line12 · 4d
Postage dues · Maltese Cross watermark, line perforation
Denomination4d
Issue date1967-11-09
The story behind the issue
Four denominations on ordinary Maltese-cross watermarked paper with line12 perforation, distinct from the existing ten-value comb-perforated1968 group.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Not documented
- Postal purpose
- Postage due
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co.
- Printing process
- Photogravure (contemporary report)
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 12 (line)
- Watermark
- Maltese Cross
- Paper
- Ordinary paper
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedThe first-sale date, four denominations, printer, watermark and line perforation are independently described by the contemporary Said account. The specimen study corroborates the ordinary-paper group. Physical verification and the reported printing process remain open.
Research notes: The contemporary source explicitly distinguishes these four line-perforated values from the 1968 comb12½ stamps. Both are retained as separate major types. Photogravure is the contemporary author’s reported process and awaits independent physical confirmation.
- 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), printed p16: contemporary issue and perforation observations ↗
Image & attribution
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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.