and pictorial scenes was issued. Some of the scenes were reused from the 1926–1930 definitives, whilst some values had completely new designs. The stamps were printed by Waterlow. The ¼d value was the only stamp which did not depict the monarch, but instead was based on the 1901 ¼d stamp, modernised to show how the Grand Harbour looked in the 1930s and with the GRI monogram representing the monarch. Six stamps from this set were reissued in new colours in 1943. In 1947 Malta was granted self-government again, and in 1948 this was commemorated by overprinting the George VI definitives with the text . In 1953, six stamps were reissued with colour changes, still bearing the overprint. Most of these did not exist in these colours without the overprint. A variety of the 1½d green exists in which the overprint is albino, such that it appears to be omitted. This is one of Malta's rarest postage stamp errors. A definitive issue of stamps with denominations from ¼d to £1 depicting Queen Elizabeth II and various pictorial scenes was issued between January 1956 and January 1957. The ¼d to 2/- stamps were printed by Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, while those between 2/6 and £1 were printed by Waterlow. The stamps depicted monuments, churches and historic sites in Malta such as the Great Siege Monument, Auberge de Castille, Les Gavroches and monuments in Saint John's Co-Cathedral, along with scrolls presented to Malta by George VI and President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. In 1963 and 1964, the 1d and 2d denominations of this issue were released with a different watermark. Omnibus and commemorative issues (1935–1964) Malta participated in all Crown Agents omnibus issues prior to independence, issuing stamps with common designs that were used in many colonies of the British Empire. Malta issued such stamps for the silver jubilee of George V (1935), the coronation of George VI (1937), victory at the end of World War II (1946), the Royal Silver Wedding (1949), the 75th anniversary of the UPU (1949), the coronation of Elizabeth II (1953), Freedom from Hunger (1963) and the Red Cross centenary (1963). In 1950, Malta issued a set of three stamps on the occasion of the visit of Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II) to Malta. Other commemorative issues followed, with issues for the 7th centenary of the Scapular in 1951, and for another royal visit by