Halfpenny Yellow · Crown CC, perf 14

Technical details

Issuing authority

Malta (British colonial administration)

Postal purpose

Postage

Currency

GBP pre-decimal

Designer

Not documented

Printer

De La Rue

Printing process

Typography

Stamp dimensions

18½ × 22½ mm (historic reference)

Stamps per sheet

240 stamps in four panes of 60

Plate number

1

Perforation

14

Watermark

Crown CC

Paper

White wove paper; thin and later thick printings grouped

Colour

Buff, brown, orange and yellow shades

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

Bonnici dates the first Crown CC supply to June 1863; the invoice is 17 April 1863. Colour and ink differences within this broad structural group are not separately counted. Specialist varieties and watermark orientations remain outside this grouping. The historic account distinguishes the initial thin white wove Crown CC printing from later thick white wove Crown CC paper. This grouped perforation-14 record does not certify one thickness for every represented printing. The 18½ × 22½ mm dimension is the reported historical reference for this halfpenny design, not a certified measurement of the illustrated specimen or a new physical-type distinction. Current date, perforation and watermark identification are retained.

• Alfred Bonnici · Halfpenny Yellow study, chapter 3 (1976) ↗
• Alfred Bonnici · Halfpenny Yellow study, chapter 4 (1977) ↗
• 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 ↗

Image & attribution

Image permission not established

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.