Stamp of Malta (British colony with limited self-government); 1948; definitive stamp of the issue "Local Motives with overprint"; stamp drawing from 1943 with a diagonal, two-lines, black overprint "SELF-GOVERNMENT / 1947" after entry into force of a new (colonial-) constitution in 1947; stamp drawing with the Verdala Palace and a portrait of the British King George VI in oval with crown; stamp postmarked in 1950
Stamps: Michel: No. 201 (= No. 192 with overprint); Yvert et Tellier: No. 203; Scott: No. 210; AFA: No. 202
Color: green with black overprint
Watermark: Malta No. 4 (= Great Britain No. 4) (multiple Saint Edward's crown over convoluted charcters "CA")
Nominal value: 1 d. (Penny)

Postage validity: from 25 November 1948 until 19 October 1976
Stamp picture size (printed area): 30.5 x 26.0 mm Date

25 November 1938 (first issue day of the stamp)

25 January 1950 (date of postmark) Source scan of original Author Postal administration for Malta Permission
(Reusing this file)

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Other versions

- Stamp in the same drawing, but with red overprint