Queen Victoria 5/- · inverted Crown CC watermark

1 rekords ta’ bolli · 5/-

One selected documented watermark-orientation variety; rose shade gradations and the probable imperforate proof are excluded.

Noti tar-riċerka: The base stamp was introduced in 1886. No exact first appearance of the inverted-watermark variety is asserted.

• A. J. Séfi, The Postage Stamps of Malta (1913), chapter XVI, printed pp. 28–29: five-shilling inverted watermark and Crown CC reference list ↗