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1893 / Heritage
Queen Victoria 4d brown · imperforate
Queen Victoria 4d · imperforate issued variety
The story behind the issue
An imperforate sheet of the brown fourpence was found at Valletta Post Office in 1893. This is an issued variety of the 1885 design.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Stamp format
- Issued imperforate variety
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Not documented
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- Imperforate
- Watermark
- Crown CA
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Brown
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedSéfi reports discovery at Valletta Post Office on 16 December 1893, one issued sheet of 120 stamps, and his own sight of an unsevered block. The catalogue uses the documented discovery year, not an invented exact first-sale day. Discovery date is not claimed as the original release date. No surviving-population estimate or expert authentication of a modern specimen is supplied.
Image & attribution
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One documented issued imperforate variety; proof-sheet imperforates of other values are excluded.
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