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Winter No 3
Editorial John Pullicino 85
Contents 85
MALTA STUDY CIRCLE Annual Subscription for year 31 Dec to 2021 86
Message from the Chairman 87
Dr David Ball : A Tribute 88
Malta Postal History – Why? (in David’s own words) David Ball 89
1899 Valletta to USA on illustrated envelope 90
11 Wavy Line cancellations on letter from Crimea to Calcutta 91
Malta Wavy Line cancellation on Great Britain 1847 Embossed 1/- Green 92
Great Britain embossed 6d SG.25 Violet on 26 March 1856 cover from Malta to Gibraltar 93
French Antilles, BARTH to Malta April 1860. A rare incoming cover 93
1st Battalion The Cheshire Regiment Malta 1941 -1943. A Green / R Evans 94
Illustrated Advertising Envelope ‘ENCORE WHISKY’ to Trieste. 99
A Trio of unusual Malta PAR AVION JUSQUA’A Covers Alan Green 100
Query- Short F Confirmed Positions? Neil Grover 105
Malta Double Arc in black on Great Britain 1881 2½d. Blue Pl 23 107
Instructional Mark ‘PACKET LETTER NOT ORIGINATING/IN MALTA/CHARGED WITH POSTAGE’. 108
Hand Illustrated FDCs by C Camilleri of Valletta 108
Malta George Cross Island Patriotic cover to Indiana U.S.A. 4 May 1945 109
1860 Malta to London with a four line italic Instructional Marking 110
Melita’s contribution to COVID -19 memorabilia 110
Quarantine rules during the epidemic in 1892 111
Nile Expeditionary Force 1898 cover to Malta from Major W Ross 114
1864 Telegram Dispatch imprinted Registered Envelope to Bombay 114
The art and development of stamp design for the George Cross anniversaries: Chev E. V. Cremona 115
Malta Errors and Varieties on 1965 definitive stamps – an update. 120
Bleriot L Aeronautics letter to G B Hynes, Fort Ricasoli Malta 18 April 1911 T Camilleri 121
Malta to British Guiana 21 July 1879 with a Two Line Instructional Mark. 122
1930 Canada – Zeppelin LAKEHURST via N.J. – SEVILLE Pan American Flight to Malta 123
PHS 58 Pat and Adrian Patrick 123
MALTA POST OFFICES 1806-1857 and their handstruck Postal Markings Alan Green 125
CONTACTS 126
Summer No 2
Editorial John Pullicino 43
Minutes of the AGM Saturday 16 Feb. 2019 44
AUCTION NEWS and Selected Scanned Lots 45
The SS Tudor Prince - the story of an album and a Salvaged Cover David Ball 2202049
Malta - WWI Naval Censor GAW Wilkinson C. F. (Gould 3 B47) David Ball 50
WWII CS-T2-36 – an update R oger Bower 52
A puzzling WWII cover Rodger Evans 53
Airmail from Malta to Australia and Dutch East Indies in December 1934 Alan Green 54
Letter from His Majesty’s Sloop Rose at Malta to Guernsey 29 November 1927. 61
Malta 1922 Postage Overprint Missing Turquoise 2d Tablet value. 63
Malta WW I POW unlisted hand Drawn card 9 February 1916 64
Lady Gowrie, Canberra, Australia: the story behind the cover. Lou Wadley 65
Imperial Airways Transatlantic Mail 1 Aug 1939 Malta - New York 66
The S. S. Sardinia Disaster – Malta Postcards on 28 November 1908 John Pullicino 67
Malta stamp Errors – Varieties from the ‘Pierron’ collection 69
The Queen Victoria ½d green with inverted watermark Graham Pound 71
Hotel Advertising Postcards Rodger Evans 73
EBay buyers beware: Bogus covers fetch high prices 75
Government Postal announcements Hadrian Wood 76
Apex International Air Post Exhibition London sent to Malta 10 May 1934 Lou Wadley 82
MALTA POST OFFICES 1806 – 1857 and their HANDSTRUCK POSTAL MARKINGS’ 83
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