Cancelled green Edward VII HALFPENNY design-family illustration. WATERMARK UNVERIFIED: the specimen could be the 1904 multiple-CA printing. It does not authenticate the 1903 single-CA type.
1903 / Heritage
Edward VII · halfpenny
Edward VII · single Crown CA
Denomination½d
Issue date1903-03-12
The story behind the issue
The first Edward VII stamps entered use value by value in 1903 and 1904. This group comprises the seven values on single Crown CA paper; each stamp records its own documented release date.
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
- 240 stamps in four panes of 60
- Perforation
- 14
- Watermark
- Crown CA
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Green
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
VerifiedImage & attribution
Malta Post Office stamp; cancelled adhesive on Maglio Garden, Floriana postcard (1905), Malta Tramways collection; scan via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain — exact Commons postcard page declares PD-UK-unknown / PD-old and Public Domain Mark; underlying colonial stamp artwork predates 1906 and is more than 70 years old
Base designs only; shades, errors, proofs and later printings excluded.