The 1d image was designed to convey the importance of family life in Malawi. It is a composite of three photos:
- Photo A – provided the smiling features of the mother
- Photo B – provided the pose or position of holding the child and the child’s features
- Photo C – provided the the simple cotton dress of the mother as the floral dresses in Photo A & Photo B would have been ineffectual when reducing the image to postage stamp size.
Details
- Designer: Victor Whitely
- Printer: Harrisons & Sons Ltd, London
- Process: Photogravure
- Paper:
- Watermark:
- 1st Printing – None
- 4th Printing – Cockerels (sideways)
- Perf: 14.5 (comb)
- Cylinders: 1A (Reddish Violet)
- Sheet: R6 x 10 (60 stamps)
- Quantity:
- Reprints: 4th Printing – 1 April 1966
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Sheet Numbers
References
- Gibbons Stamp Monthly (June 1964)
