Monochrome handbook illustration; original stamp is brown
1901 / Heritage
Valletta Harbour
Grand Harbour · newspaper rate
Denomination¼d
Issue date1901-01-01
The story behind the issue
A farthing rate for newspapers began on 1 January 1901. The accompanying stamp showed Valletta’s harbour. This record covers the original single-watermark issue; the 1905 multiple-watermark printing is outside this group.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Not documented
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Stamps per sheet
- 120 stamps in two panes of 60, one above the other
- Plate number
- First plate: no plate numeral reported
- Perforation
- Not documented
- Watermark
- Crown CA, sideways
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Brown
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
VerifiedImage & attribution
Alexander Joseph Séfi, 1913 / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain — PD-scan, author died 1934
Base designs only; shades, errors, proofs and later printings excluded.
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