Halfpenny Yellow · Crown CC, perf 14 × 12½

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 × 12½

Watermark

Crown CC

Paper

Thick white wove paper

Colour

Yellow-buff and yellow

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

Bonnici records release of the first compound-gauge supply in July 1878. The 1879 supply shares the same structural type. Séfi also reports the reversed compound gauge; a reported reverse-orientation entry is now listed separately in the selected-variety inventory, with the unresolved comparison to Bonnici retained. The historic account lists the compound 12½ × 14 type within the thick white wove Crown CC specification. The 18½ × 22½ mm dimension is the reported historical reference for this halfpenny design, not a certified measurement of the illustrated specimen or a new physical-type distinction.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, 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.