File:MLT 1956 MiNr0240 pm B002.jpg

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Stamp of Malta (British crown colony); 1956; definitive stamp of the issue "Local Motives - Queen Elizabeth II"; stamp drawing with the "War Memorial" in Valletta and a portrait of the Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in oval; stamp postmarked on
Stamp: Michel: No. 240; Yvert et Tellier: No. 242; Scott: No. 249; AFA: No. 239
Color: blueish greean to green
Watermark: Malta No. 4 (= Great Britain No. 4) (multiple Saint Edward's crown over convoluted charcters "CA")
Nominal value: 1½ d. (Penny)
Postage validity: from 9 February 1956 until ?

Stamp picture size (printed area): 26.5 x 30.0 mm
Date

(first issue day of the stamp)

(date of postmark)
Source scan of original
Author Postal administration for Malta
Permission
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Public domain
This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain.

This is because it is one of the following:

  1. It is a photograph taken prior to 1 June 1957; or
  2. It was published prior to 1974; or
  3. It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created prior to 1974.

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Picture description Drawing with the "War Memorial" in Valletta and a portrait of the Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in oval

The pictured memorial is located in the Floriana area of Valletta at

Object location35° 53′ 40.92″ N, 14° 30′ 28.19″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

The memorial, designed by the British architect Hubert Worthington (1886-1963), was inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on .
Quotation: "...The Malta Memorial commemorates almost 2,300 airmen who lost their lives during the Second World War whilst serving with the Commonwealth Air Forces flying from bases in Austria, Italy, Sicily, islands of the Adriatic and Mediterranean, Malta, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, West Africa, Yugoslavia and Gibraltar, and who have no known grave."

First day of issue
Publisher Postal administration for Malta
Design Unknown authorUnknown author
Printer "Bradbury, Wilkinson & Company PLC", New Malden
Printing technique Recess printing
Circulation 12,539,790 (in sheets à 60 stamps)
Perforation Comb perforation, K 11½
MICHEL Nr. Malta, Nr. 240
SCOTT Nr. Malta, No. 249

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War Memorial

inception

9 February 1956

coordinates of depicted place

35°53'40.9"N, 14°30'28.1"E

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