Shared Edward VII HALFPENNY front-design illustration only. WATERMARK UNVERIFIED; the pictured specimen may differ in paper, printing or shade from this 1904 record. Not an authenticated multiple-CA specimen.
1904 / Heritage
Edward VII · multiple watermark halfpenny
Edward VII era · multiple Crown CA
Denomination½d
Issue date1904-11-06
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
- Green
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
VerifiedImage & attribution
Malta Post Office stamp; Salvatore Lorenzo Cassar postcard (1910), scan via Wikimedia Commons; adhesive detail cropped and rotated upright · Public domain — exact Commons postcard page declares PD-old and Public Domain Mark; photographer Salvatore Lorenzo Cassar died 1928. Underlying historical colonial stamp artwork is more than 70 years old.
Base designs only; shades, errors, proofs and later printings excluded.
