Monochrome shared Edward VII ONE PENNY design illustration only. WATERMARK UNVERIFIED; the source may depict a different paper or printing. Not an authenticated 1904 multiple-CA specimen or colour match.
1905 / Heritage
Edward VII · multiple watermark penny
Edward VII era · multiple Crown CA
Denomination1d
Issue date1905-04-24
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
- Black and scarlet
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
VerifiedImage & attribution
Alexander Joseph Séfi, The Postage Stamps of Malta (1913); scan via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain — PD-scan / PD-old; published 1913, author died 1934
Base designs only; shades, errors, proofs and later printings excluded.
