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1901–1913 / Heritage
Valletta Harbour ¼d · imperforate at bottom with extra-wide margin
Harbour farthing · omitted lower gutter perforation
Only this release range is established; the individual issue year remains unverified.
The story behind the issue
A missing inter-pane perforation line leaves an extra-wide attached margin below a row of single-Crown-CA harbour farthings.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Stamp format
- Omitted marginal perforation
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Not documented
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 14; lower gutter-edge perforation omitted
- Watermark
- Crown CA, sideways
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedSéfi quotes Evans describing omission of one of the two perforation lines bordering the inter-pane gap. Gatt specifically observed single-watermark stamps with the extra margin below. The range means no earlier than the 1901 base issue and documented by the 1913 handbook; it is not a continuous-production period or an established first year. The source allows the possibility of other orientations, but none is invented here. Attached margin and reverse watermark require physical authentication.
Research notes: The issue-year heading anchors the original design, not the first occurrence of the error. The individual stamp carries an explicit bounded unknown date.
Image & attribution
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One observed paper-family/omitted-edge combination. The attached gutter margin is essential; a trimmed loose stamp is not sufficient identification.
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