Gostra, greasy pole

Technical details

Issuing authority

Malta General Post Office

Postal purpose

Postage

Currency

Maltese pound / lira · decimal

Designer

Harry Borg

Printer

Printex Limited, Malta

Printing process

Lithography

Stamp dimensions

27 × 33 mm

Perforation

14 × 13.75

Watermark

Maltese crosses, sideways

Paper

Chalk surfaced

Colour

Not documented

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

Research notes: Farrugia reports an impression of two kinds of paper after examining panes, without characterising or enumerating them. Additional paper types remain unresolved and are not invented here.

• Joseph Farrugia, contemporary new-issue study and diary, PSM 11(2), pp. 22–23 ↗

Image & attribution

Image permission not established

Basic design/value types and explicitly documented major watermark differences; excludes unchanged reprints, plate/pane numbers, errors and repeated formats.