Maltese Cross postage due · 4d

Technical details

Issuing authority

Malta Post Office

Postal purpose

Postage due

Currency

GBP pre-decimal

Designer

Not documented

Printer

Bradbury Wilkinson

Printing process

Not documented

Stamp dimensions

Not documented

Perforation

12½ comb (contemporary report)

Watermark

Multiple Maltese Crosses

Paper

Ordinary paper

Colour

Yellow-olive

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

Issue date, denomination and distinct comb-perforated status are independently supported. The gauge is quoted from the contemporary report and corroborating specialist study; actual measured gauge and printing process remain to be reconciled.

• The New Malta Postage Dues · contemporary report reprinted by permission of E. Said, PSM 2(4), p. 16 · all ten values and actual release date ↗
• John De Battista · Malta Postage Due Adhesive Stamps, PSM 38(3), p. 7 · specimen-based issue classification ↗

Image & attribution

Image permission not established

All ten ordinary-paper comb-perforated design/value types released 30 May 1968. Distinct from the four line-perforated Maltese Cross-watermark values of 1967. Unchanged reprints, specialist paper/colour varieties, errors, proofs/specimens and presentation formats excluded.