2c Harding, Rotary Perf 11 – Scott 613

THE FINEST KNOWN OF THE 44 2-CENT HARDING ROTARY PERF 11 STAMPS RECORDED

Extremely well-centered with unusually wide margins for this printing, sharp impression, bold wavy-line machine cancel

FRESH AND EXTREMELY FINE. .

Records show 40 used singles (one faintly cancelled, if at all) and two used pairs. Of the singles, 23 are sound, but of these only five rate a grading of Very Fine or Extremely Fine. The stamp offered here is unquestionably in the finest existing condition.

The 2c Harding Rotary Perf 11 stamp was discovered in 1938 by Leslie Lewis of the New York firm, Stanley Gibbons Inc. Gary Griffith presents his hypothesis in United States Stamps 1922-26 that rotary-printed sheets of 400 were first reduced to panes of 100 and then fed through the 11-gauge perforating machine normally used for flat plate sheets. This method distinguishes sheet-waste stamps -- Scott 544, 596 and 613 -- from the coil-waste stamps and explains the existence of a straight-edge on Scott 613.

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