Representative colour front crop from an original 1909 postcard, not authentication of paper, watermark, exact shade or individual printing

1907 / Heritage

Edward VII · carmine penny

Edward VII era · universal colours

Denomination1d

Issue date1907-04-02

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The story behind the issue

A revised colonial colour scheme appeared progressively from 1907 to 1911. Séfi gives a full date for the penny and years for the other values. Existing pictorial designs accompanied the monarch’s portrait.

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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: Carmine
Quantity: Not documented

Sources & verification

Verified

A. J. Séfi, The Postage Stamps of Malta (1913) ↗

Image & attribution

British colonial stamp artwork; scan of Gustav Busuttil postcard sent to Clifford M. Balkam, 1909, uploaded by Nvss132 to Wikimedia Commons; cropped to stamp · Public domain — exact Commons file page explicitly declares PD-old and Public Domain Mark; selected colonial stamp design published before 1910 and before 1931 for US expiry; faithful original-document reproduction