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Malaya (BMA / Malayan Federation / Malaysia)


On this page are listed the post-War issues for the whole of Malaya, and later, Malaysia.  Issues for the Malayan Federation are inscribed Persekutuan Tanah Melayu.  Issues for individual States will be listed on separate pages in due course.

Chapter overview
  • Airport Tax (catalogue numbers prefixed A)
  • Excise Tax (catalogue numbers prefixed X)
  • Labels (catalogue numbers prefixed L)
  • Railway Newspaper stamps (catalogue numbers prefixed N)
  • Revenue (catalogue numbers prefixed R)
  • Revenue usage of Postage stamps (catalogue numbers prefixed S)

Acknowledgments for this section can be found on the main Asia page.

Currency
  • (1945-1967) 100 cents = 1 Malayan dollar
  • (1967-1975) 100 cents (or sen) = 1 Malaysian dollar
  • (1975-present) 100 sen = 1 ringgit

Airport Tax
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A1/3
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Excise Tax
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Labels

Railway Newspaper stamps

Revenue
1945 (according to Barefoot).  Large Nyasa revenue key type featuring the portrait of King George VI.  Inscribed STRAITS SETTLEMENTS at foot and REVENUE at both sides.  Overprinted BMA (=British Military Administration) MALAYA.  Wmk Multiple Script CA.  Perf 14.  Printed and overprinted (typo) by De La Rue.

  R1. $25 red and brown
  R2. $100 dull purple and ultramarine

Notes:
1. This was a special printing.  R1/2 were not issued in these colour combinations without BMA overprint.
2. Originally proofed in reverse colours.
3. Minor plate varieties.
Printings:


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1963-69.  Malayan Federation issue inscribed PERSEKUTUAN TANAH MELAYU (=Federation of Malaya) at top and HASIL (=Revenue) at foot.  xxx mm.  Federation Coat of Arms (multicoloured) in centre; frame featuring arms of the individual Malay States.  Wmk Multiple PTM.  Perf 14.  Printed (centre litho, frame recess) by De La Rue in London.

a) Ordinary paper (1963)
  R3. $25 dull carmine
  R4. $100 slate-blue
  R5. $250 green

b) Glazed paper (1969)
  R6. $25 dull carmine
  R7. $100 slate-blue
  R8. $250 green

Notes:
1. The original essay for the design had the arms of the individual States in blue, as shown in the illustration above right.
2. The State arms were considered too large for the design, and a redrawn type with smaller coats of arms was subsequently produced (see Rxxx below).
Printings:


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1973-c1975.  As previous issue but redrawn with smaller coats of arms for individual states (5½mm diameter instead of 6mm), and change to perf 12½.  Wmk Multiple PTM.  Printed (centre litho, frame recess) by De La Rue in Dublin.

a) Glazed paper (1973)
  R9. $25 dull carmine
  R10. $100 slate-blue
  R11. $250 green

b) Ordinary paper (c1975)
  R12. $25 dull carmine
  R13. $100 slate-blue


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1963-69.  First Malaysia issue.  Inscribed HASIL (=Revenue) at top and MALAYSIA at foot.  xxx mm.  Federation Coat of Arms (multicoloured) in centre; frame featuring arms of the individual Malay States.  Wmk Multiple PTM.  Perf 14.  Printed (centre litho, frame recess) by De La Rue in London.

 

 

a) Ordinary paper (1963)

 

  R3. $25 dull carmine

 

 

 

  R2. $100 dull purple and ultramarine












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Revenue usage of Postage stamps

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