MALTA½dHalfpenny Yellow · Crown CC, rough perf 12½Image unavailable
18681868 / Heritage
Halfpenny Yellow · rough perforation 12½
A rough-cut perforation gauge distinguishes this Crown CC supply. Bonnici’s day-book research dates its dispatch to May 1868 and public release to later that year, correcting the earlier chronology in Séfi.
1 stamp records · ½d
Structural paper/watermark/perforation group, with ordinary colour printings grouped. Not a specialised shade, individual-supply, error, proof, specimen, watermark-orientation or pane-position listing.
- Alfred Bonnici · Halfpenny Yellow study, chapter 3 (1976) ↗
- A. J. Séfi, The Postage Stamps of Malta (1913), chapters III and XV–XX: original sheet arrangements and plate marks ↗
- Henry Collin and Henry L. Calman, A Catalogue for Advanced Collectors, Part VII, Smithsonian Libraries scan, printed pp.427–428: halfpenny reference size and thin/thick wove papers ↗