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Title: The Philatelic Society of Malta magazine : no. 7(2) : spring 1977 Editors: Cutajar, Nick A. Abstract: Table of contents: 1/ The second international contest "vote a stamp" -- 2/ BONNICI, A. - The evolution of the one half penny Queen Victoria yellow stamp : chapters 5 & 6 -- 3/ CUTAJAR, N. A. - San Marino : a centenary of postage stamps : 1877 - 1977 -- 4/ FARRUGIA, J. - Detailed information of new issues : 1c7 overprint issue -- 5/ FARRUGIA, J. - Detailed information of new issues : Flemish tapestries issue -- 6/ BUSH, S. N. - The De La Rue 'key plate' designs for the stamps of the British colonies -- 7/ Slogan cancellations -- 8/ Malta : a diary : 1976 (illustrations).

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Title: Malta : a diary : 1976 (illustrations) Abstract: The special hand postmarks shown above refer to the article "Malta - A Diary" which was published in Vol. 7, No. 1 (Winter 1977) on pages 19-23, dealing with, among other items, special cancellations employed by the Malta Post Office during 1976. Description: All postmarks are reproduced in smaller size.

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Title: Slogan cancellations Abstract: Several readers have written to ask why we have changed the position of slogans on the envelope so that they now obliterate the stamps. Perhaps a word or so of explanation will not be amiss. All forms of postmarks arc intended to cancel the stamps in order that they cannot be reused and to show the office and date of posting. To ensure that all the stamps are cancelled when more than one is used the cancellation takes the forms of wavy lines or a postmark slogan. [excerpt] Description: Extract from: The "PHILATELIC BULLETIN", the official organ of the BRITISH POST OFFICE PHILATELIC BUREAU, EDINBURGH.

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Title: The De La Rue 'key plate' designs for the stamps of the British colonies Abstract: The introduction to Stanley Gibbons' British Commonwealth catalogue, under the heading "Colonial Types - Types of the General Plates used by Messrs De La Rue & Co. for printing British Colonial Stamps", illustrates two designs prepared by that firm, known respectively as the "Victorian Key Type" and the "Georgian Key Type". What is meant by a Key Type design? Briefly, it is a bade design from which plates are prepared for the printing of the stamps of more than one country, where only the title and the value expression differ. There is nothing unique about this. Gibbons' 'Simplified' catalogue lists Key Type designs for France and for its overseas possessions, and for those of Germany, Portugal and Spain, the 'Crown' Key Type of Portugal for use in Angola appearing as early as 1870. [excerpt]

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