Industry

Technical details

Issuing authority

Malta General Post Office

Postal purpose

Postage

Currency

Maltese pound / lira · decimal

Designer

Charles Cassar

Printer

Printex Limited, Malta

Printing process

Lithography

Stamp dimensions

29 × 47 mm

Perforation

13.6 × 13.9

Watermark

Maltese crosses, sideways

Paper

Chalk surfaced

Colour

Not documented

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

• Joseph Farrugia, contemporary new-issue study and diary, PSM 12(4), pp. 20–21 ↗

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.