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VERY FINE. AN EXTREMELY RARE JOINT LINE MULTIPLE OF THE 1923 2-CENT COIL IN THE CARMINE LAKE SHADE. THIS IS PROBABLY UNIQUE WITH THE PLATE NUMBER. A PHENOMENAL RARITY OF THE ISSUE.
With 2009 A.P.S. and P.S.E. certificates. Scott Retail as joint line pair with no premium for the third stamp or the plate number (a single is unpriced) (Image)
VERY FINE AND CHOICE. A RARE SOUND AND CENTERED JOINT LINE PAIR OF THE 2-CENT ROTARY PRESS COIL COMBINING TYPES I AND II. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DIFFICULT COMBINATION JOINT LINE PAIR TO OBTAIN IN SOUND CONDITION AND WITH DECENT CENTERING -- THIS IS THE ONLY SOUND AND CENTERED PAIR CONTAINED IN POWER SEARCH.
According to the Armstrong book, the Type I, Scott 599, was produced starting in 1923. In 1929 the Bureau experimented with a new method of making plates. It became necessary to retouch the die, most notably in the hair, creating Type II (Scott 599A and 634A). Combination joint line pairs exist because two plates of 170 subjects were used at one time and for a short period one plate of each type was used.
The existence of the new die wasn't discovered until 1932, almost three years after it was produced. On July 6, 1932, the postage rate for first class mail was changed from 2c to 3c, and demand dropped sharply for 2c stamps. The existence of combination joint line pairs was not discovered until the early 1940's, making them especially scarce -- this is the only sound and centered joint line pair contained in Power Search.
Ex Twigg-Smith. With 1993 P.F. certificate. (Image)
FRESH AND VERY FINE. A RARE SOUND EXAMPLE OF THE 2-CENT HARDING ROTARY PERF 11. ONE OF ONLY A FEW SOUND EXAMPLES WHERE THE PERFORATIONS DO NOT TOUCH THE DESIGN.
Warren G. Harding, the 29th President, died in San Francisco on August 2, 1923, during a cross-country "Voyage of Understanding". Several people suggested a Harding memorial stamp, printed in black, and it was rushed into production. The first flat plate printing (Scott 610) was issued on September 1, 1923, in his home town of Marion, Ohio, followed less than two weeks later by the normal Perf 10 rotary press printing (Scott 612) on September 12.
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 explains the existence of a straight-edge on Scott 613. Production quality and quantity was very low, due to the rotary press stamps' natural tendency to curl, and the use of the flat plate perforator for the slightly different-sized rotary printing.
Our updated census of the 2c Harding Rotary Perf 11, available at our website at http://www.siegelauctions.com/dynamic/census/613/613.pdf , records 43 used singles (one faintly cancelled, if at all), one used pair and the recently-discovered used strip of three. Of the singles, 25 are sound, but of these only six rate a grade of Very Fine or Extremely Fine. The stamp offered here is one of the few choice sound examples.
Census No. 613-CAN-35. Ex Floyd and Geisler. With 1982, 1990 and 2007 P.F. certificates. (Image)