Monochrome 1913 illustration of the shared Victoria halfpenny design. The 1885 stamp is GREEN; this earlier-design illustration is not colour-matched. Paper and watermark are not authenticated.
1885 / Wirt
Queen Victoria · halfpenny
Queen Victoria definitives
Valur nominali½d
Data tal-ħarġa1885-01-01
L-istorja wara l-ħarġa
Six values marked the change to Maltese stamps for both inland and overseas mail. Séfi reproduces a postal notice recording advance sale from 27 December 1884, for use from 1 January 1885.
Dettalji tekniċi
- Awtorità emittenti
- Malta Post Office
- Użu postali
- Posta
- Munita
- GBP pre-decimal
- Disinjatur
- Mhux dokumentat
- Stampatur
- Mhux dokumentat
- Proċess tal-istampar
- Typography
- Daqs tal-bolla
- 18½ × 22½ mm (historic reference measurement)
- Bolol f’folja
- 240 stamps in four panes of 60
- Numru tal-pjanċa
- 1
- Perforazzjoni
- 14
- Filigrana
- Crown CA
- Karta
- White wove paper
- Kulur
- Green
- Kwantità
- Mhux dokumentat
Sorsi u verifika
Verifikat- A. J. Séfi, The Postage Stamps of Malta (1913), chapters III and XV–XX: original sheet arrangements and plate marks ↗
- Collin and Calman, A Catalogue for Advanced Collectors, Part VII, printed p.428: Victoria printing, paper and reference measurements ↗
Immaġni u attribuzzjoni
Alexander Joseph Séfi, The Postage Stamps of Malta (1913); earlier local halfpenny design illustration, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain — exact Commons illustration page declares PD-scan / PD-old; 1913 publication, author Alexander Joseph Séfi died 1934
Base designs only; shades, errors, proofs and later printings excluded.
