Monochrome shared FARTHING harbour design illustration only. WATERMARK UNVERIFIED; source illustrates the earlier design and may differ in paper or printing from the 1905 multiple-CA issue. No colour or plate authentication.
1905 / Heritage
Valletta Harbour · multiple watermark
Edward VII era · multiple Crown CA
Denomination¼d
Issue date1905-10-19
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
- Red-brown
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
VerifiedImage & attribution
Alexander Joseph Séfi, The Postage Stamps of Malta (1913); earlier Valletta Harbour farthing illustration via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain — exact Commons illustration page declares PD-scan / PD-old; published 1913, author Alexander Joseph Séfi died 1934.
Base designs only; shades, errors, proofs and later printings excluded.
