Queensland 2nd Sideface bisects - a visual compendium

This post is a work in progress, and aims to show all the known Queensland 2nd sideface bisects.

There are various definitions of what a bisect is:

Bisect: A stamp cut in half which has been used to pay the postage at half the face value of the original stamp or during shortages of stamps.

Bisect: A stamp cut or perforated into two parts, each half representing half the face value of the original stamp. Officially authorized bisects have often been used during temporary shortages of commonly used denominations.

Bisect. Half of a stamp, either vertically, diagonally or horizontally, to meet another rate where various values are short.

If you have any examples of bisects for these issues can you please send me a scan so I can show it here. An interesting article on these issues is Queensland Bisects, and a Plate Variety by P. L. Pemberton which appeared in the Philatelic Journal, January-March 1943, pp. 9-10. The article is here.

Queensland 2nd sideface bisect on piece, 1 shilling (SG 172 lilac) and 6d. (SG 170 green perf 12) to make 9d postage. It is used in Brisbane; I think Dec 188- and has the Brisbane QL duplex obliterator and has the Brisbane, Queensland datestamp with the 2 lines between Brisbane and Queensland. Further information here.

1/- violet (perf 12) bisect (+ 2d blue) fully tied to piece by indistinct BN cancel, fine 'PARLIAMENT  HOUSE / OC24 / 95 / QUEENSLAND' cds alongside, the cds affected by a closed tear. Auctioned by Prestige Philately auction 96 lot 401 in 2002 (Colonel Harrie Evans). This was also illustrated in the Pemburton article.

6d green bisect fully tied  by Brisbane duplex of DE6 / 93. Auctioned by Prestige Philately auction 96 lot 400 in 2002

1/- violet bisect fully tied by Brisbane duplex of FE 23 / 94. Auctioned by Prestige Philately auction 96 lot 400 in 2002. Colonel Harrie Evans

Brisbane bisect on either a 1d. or a 2d. dated No 19 1893. Illustration is from the Pemburton article.

Brisbane bisect on a ½d. and a half 3d. Illustration is from the Pemburton article.

This example was shown in Stanley Gibbons Stamp Monthly, August 1983, p.67. A 2d. bisect with a Parliament House cancellation dated 16 October 1895.

Phoenix auction no 47 lot no 1013. 1893 (Sep 16) cover from Beaudesert to Scotland with Sidefaces 2d Retouched Plate SG #190 and 1d #187 Bisect tied by Bars '430' cancel, redirected on arrival. Lower Largo & Edinburgh backstamps, cover with faults. RPSofL Certificate (1961) "it is probably genuine but unauthorised bisect"

Queensland SG 172 1 shilling lilac bisect on piece, numeral 159, Gympie (Rare) to make up a 6d. rate

1890, BISECTED 1d vermilion-red together with pair as block of 2½ on cover to Tottenham, England, tied with oval ''G.P.O.'' handstamps, with partial stroke of octagonal Brisbane d/s and 13 July 92 arrival b/s in red. Cover with some stains, but an uncommon tolerated franking with bisected 1d + pair for 2½d rate. Seen here

Queensland 6d. green bisect with Brisbane QL duplex cancellation dated December 189-

29 Nov 1893 printed YMCA wrapper used locally bearing 1d vermilion-red Sideface diagonally bisected and tied by Brisbane duplex. Seen at Millennium auction no 52 lot no 459

2d bisect posted at Parliament House. Seen on Stampboards

While not a 2nd Sideface I have included it here for completeness. The only 3rd sideface example I have seen. Spink Auction no 14015 Lot no 2368. Registered Mail 1898 (Mar.) envelope from an unknown office to New York, bearing 1d. (2, one bisected diagonally) and 2d. (2) all cancelled "R" in oval, showing U.S. registration number handstamps and, on reverse, Brisbane, San Francisco and New York registered datestamps. A rare and most unusual unauthorised use of a bisect which has been accepted without surcharge. Sold for £80

Queensland 1893  Gympie 1/- Bisect Tied -Numeral 456 Childers. No doubt per favour for Stamp Dealer Newell Bull of Gunalda just north of Gympie. Seen in the Queensland Stamp Collecting Facebook Group

2.5d with the 3rd 1d bisected to make up the overseas rate. Posted at West End, Townsville. Seen on Ebay

1d post card  from Gympie dated 29 October 1892 with a 0.5d bisect to Maryborough. Philatelic usage as the prepaid 1d was the correct rate. Seen in the Queensland Stamp Collecting Facebook Group

1s 6d ofm which the 1s stamp is a bisect, with a Gympie registered date stamp dated 15 May 1893. Seen in the Queensland Stamp Collecting Facebook Group