Samoa Germany New Zealand 1/- Palms bisect, both types on piece. Used. St Kilda Front from Adelaide to London

Front from Adelaide to London bearing 6d deep blue imperf SG 3 tied by a 1 barred circle cancel in black with 'PAID/MY21/1856/ADELAIDE' cds

Includes 2 block of ten 60c stamps

Otherwise the conditional is exceptional

Sent with Australia Post Parcel Express + Signature

2016 Select Certified All Australian Robert Murphy Hand Signed Card Bulldogs

Samoa Germany New Zealand 1/- Palms bisect, both types on piece. Used. St Kilda Front from Adelaide to LondonIn 1895 a fire destroyed in stocks of all Samoan stamps except the one shilling value which was then bisected diagonally and used as a 2d stamp for overseas letters between the 24th of April and May. They were cut diagonally and postmarked in blue. Collectors heard about these and wrote to Samoa asking for them. The post office obliged and these stamps when normally bisected vertically and cancelled with a black hand stamp. Both types of these elusive