Heading — sideways watermark

Technical details

Issuing authority

Malta General Post Office

Postal purpose

Postage

Currency

Maltese pound / lira · decimal

Stamp format

Miniature-sheet stamp

Designer

Richard J. Caruana

Printer

Printex Limited, Malta

Printing process

Lithography

Stamp dimensions

33 × 27 mm

Perforation

13.75 × 13.9

Watermark

Maltese crosses, sideways

Paper

Chalk surfaced

Colour

Not documented

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

Research notes: The contemporary physical study explicitly distinguishes upright watermarks in sheet stamps from sideways watermarks in all three miniature-sheet stamps. Both types are included; repeated formats alone are not counted.

• Joseph Farrugia, contemporary new-issue study and diary, PSM 12(1), pp. 24–27 ↗

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.