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1885–1913 / Heritage
Queen Victoria ½d · inverted watermark
Queen Victoria ½d · inverted Crown CA watermark
Only this release range is established; the individual issue year remains unverified.
The story behind the issue
The halfpenny of the 1885 definitive family with its Crown CA watermark inverted relative to the stamp design.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Stamp format
- Watermark orientation variety
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Not documented
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 14
- Watermark
- Crown CA, inverted
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedSéfi explicitly reports this inverted-watermark value. The range does not establish a release year or continuous printing: it spans the base issue's availability to the latest documentary bound, the 1913 handbook. No particular green shade or gum is assigned. A front-only illustration cannot authenticate the reverse watermark.
Research notes: 1885 is the base-design anchor only. The individual date is bounded by base availability and the handbook publication.
Image & attribution
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A selected, explicitly documented watermark-orientation variety, separate from the ordinary base issue; not an exhaustive specialist checklist.
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