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1901–1913 / Heritage
Valletta Harbour ¼d · reversed watermark
Harbour farthing · reversed Crown CA watermark
Only this release range is established; the individual issue year remains unverified.
The story behind the issue
The original single-Crown-CA harbour farthing with the watermark reversed, a state separately described by Séfi.
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, sideways and reversed
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedSéfi explicitly reports reversal as a separate state on the original paper. The date range bounds first possible base availability and known existence by the 1913 handbook; it does not establish a printing period. No corresponding multiple-watermark variety is inferred. Front-only illustrations cannot identify reversal; reverse examination remains necessary.
Research notes: 1901 is the base-design anchor, not an asserted first-sale year for the variety.
Image & attribution
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One explicitly reported watermark state, distinct from inversion alone and the combined state.
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