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 | Type E.1 | 1931 | Received at Tigne on 9 April 1937 | 1928 | 1948 |  | (1) | ||||||
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| Notes : Type E handstamps were manufactured on a one-off basis to replace those which, for one of a variety of reasons, was no longer available for use. They are to be found in several different shapes; but the one constant feature is that they are numbers in an oval handstamp with no break in its frame. This is not to be confused with Type H which has an unbroken circular frame. PHS 9 Type E has a dot to the right of the number, so that it cannot be confused with a ‘6’. It is the only PHS with anything other than a number inside the frame. The last confirmed PHS 6 Type A was delivered on 15 September 1921. The next six items bearing PHS 6 were not submitted for verification, so it was not possible to provide a date for the change to Type E. A PC received in Sliema on 22 November 1921 was probably the final PHS 6 Type A, as the next recorded item was delivered following the Malta Post Office reorganisation - the logical and often preferred time to introduce a new Type. The next five items, from 15 July 1924 to 21 January 1929 may have been struck with the Type E, Size Code ‘c’ handstamp. An incoming Italian PC received a PHS 13 on 6 September 1922, but the Type has not been verified. There is more than a two-year gap between the last confirmed PHS 13 Type A on 10 October 1920, and the dates are either side of the 1922/1923 postal reorganisation, so it is probably a Type E. PHS 50 was the only Group1 Type C handstamp to be replaced with a Type E. One publication mentions PHS 1, 2, 4 and 55 having a Type E, but none of these have been verified. Created : 04/11/2019 Updated : 04/11/2019 :: By Neil Grover | |||||||||||||
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