Authentic colour scan; source identifies issue, denomination and colour. Watermark and paper cannot be authenticated from the front image.
1905 / Heritage
Gozo fishing boat · multiple watermark
Edward VII era · multiple Crown CA
Denomination4½d
Issue date1905-02-27
The story behind the issue
Multiple Crown CA paper replaced the earlier single watermark. Nine values appeared between 1904 and 1906, including the existing harbour, boat and galley pictorial designs.
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
- Perforation
- 14
- Watermark
- Multiple Crown CA
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Brown
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
VerifiedImage & attribution
Malta Post Office (stamp); scan: Stan Shebs / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain — expired UK Crown copyright (PD-UKGov)
Base designs only; shades, errors, proofs and later printings excluded.
