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EXTREMELY FINE GEM. A SUPERB USED EXAMPLE OF THE 1923 2-CENT CARMINE PERF 11 ROTARY WASTE ISSUE.
With 1998 P.F. and 2010 P.S.E. certificate (XF-Superb 95 Jumbo, SMQ $1,500.00 as 95, $3,700.00 as 98). Collectors familiar with Rotary Press productions for regular issues, coils and coil waste of this era know how difficult it is to find these stamps centered and with wide margins. According to the P.S.E. Population Report this is the only one to have been awarded this grade with none higher, the next closest is a 90 (Image)
FINE. A RARE SOUND EXAMPLE OF THE 2-CENT HARDING ROTARY PERF 11, WHICH IS ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL 20TH CENTURY ISSUES.
Our census of the 2c Harding Rotary Perf 11 (as published in our Zoellner sale catalogue and updated 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, approximately 30 are sound.
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.
Census No. 613-CAN-38. Ex Hoffman. With 1978 and 2008 P.F. certificates (Image)