Halfpenny Yellow · Crown CA, 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 CA

Paper

Thick white wove paper

Colour

Orange-yellow to reddish-orange

Quantity

Not documented

Sources & verification

Bonnici’s transcribed first Crown CA invoice is 14 February 1882, with release in February 1882. Séfi’s July 1881 date is superseded here. Supplies 25–28 and 30 are grouped; green supply 29 is not counted as a yellow-stamp record. The historic account says the Crown CA halfpenny uses the same paper as the preceding thick-wove type. Its conventional July 1881 heading is not substituted for the existing date. The 18½ × 22½ mm dimension is the reported historical reference for this halfpenny design, not a certified measurement of the illustrated specimen or a new physical-type distinction.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 7–8 (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.