Samoa Germany New Zealand 1/- Palms bisect, both types on piece. Used. St Kilda 2d dull blue Plate V

2d dull blue Plate V SG 37 four margins Used Ref 330507

Otherwise the conditional is exceptional

40pf + 35pf mauve Welfare Fund Michel 507A Used Ref 09032609

Australia The First Fleet Medallion Arthur Phillips Botany Bay

2s 6d brown-orange SG 292 MUH Ref 0912351

Samoa Germany New Zealand 1/- Palms bisect, both types on piece. Used. St Kilda 2d dull blue Plate VIn 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