MALTA½dHalfpenny Yellow · Crown CC, perf 14 × 12½Image unavailable
18781878 / Heritage
Halfpenny Yellow · compound perforation
A compound gauge was introduced with the twentieth supply. It also changed perforation around the pane gutters. The yellow-buff and yellow supplies of 1878 and 1879 are grouped here.
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, chapters 5–6 (1977) ↗
- 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 ↗