Authentic colour reproduction of an original stamp; front illustration, not authentication of watermark, paper, perforation or exact shade
1886 / Heritage
Queen Victoria · five shillings
Queen Victoria · high value
Denomination5/-
Issue date1886
The story behind the issue
A larger five-shilling stamp extended the definitive range in the year after the six-value issue. The handbook distinguishes several rose shades; these are grouped in this base-design record.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Not documented
- Printing process
- Typography
- Stamp dimensions
- 25½ × 30½ mm (historic reference measurement)
- Stamps per sheet
- 120 stamps in 10 rows of 12
- Plate number
- 1
- Perforation
- 14
- Watermark
- Crown CC
- Paper
- White wove paper
- Colour
- Rose shades
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Verified- 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 ↗
Image & attribution
Government of Malta artwork; scan of original uploaded by Arno-nl to Wikimedia Commons · Public domain — exact source page declares PD-old / Public Domain Mark for Government of Malta artwork; original published 1886, also before 1931 for US expiry
Base designs only; shades, errors, proofs and later printings excluded.
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