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1905–1913 / Heritage
Valletta Harbour ¼d · imperforate at top with extra-wide margin
Harbour farthing · omitted upper gutter perforation
Only this release range is established; the individual issue year remains unverified.
The story behind the issue
A missing inter-pane perforation line leaves an extra-wide attached margin above a row of multiple-Crown-CA harbour farthings.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- Malta Post Office
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- GBP pre-decimal
- Stamp format
- Omitted marginal perforation
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Not documented
- Printing process
- Not documented
- Stamp dimensions
- Not documented
- Perforation
- 14; upper gutter-edge perforation omitted
- Watermark
- Multiple Crown CA
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedGatt's reported multiple-watermark examples have the extra-wide margin above, caused by an omitted line alongside the inter-pane gap. The lower bound is the 1905 introduction of this farthing on multiple-watermark paper; the upper bound is documentation in 1913. These are evidence bounds, not a known release interval. An ordinary stamp with cut-down or detached margin cannot authenticate the variety.
Research notes: The 1905 heading anchors the multiple-watermark farthing design; the individual variety's first-sale year is unknown.
Image & attribution
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One observed paper-family/omitted-edge combination. No additional record is created for an unobserved opposite orientation.
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