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Bisects are stamps divided in half and used postally at half their face value. Among the earliest examples are the British 6d of 1854 cut in half and used to pay the 3d late fee on a letter from London to Ashby de la Zouch (R.M. Phillips Collection, National Postal Museum). The 3d and 6d stamps of New Brunswick, 1851, were bisected and used with other denominations to make up the 1s3d and seven-and-a-halfpenny rates. Probably the best known case of bisection occurred in the Channel Islands in 1940 when Britsih 2d stamps were cut in half and used as penny stamps, during a shortage following German occupation.
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