2c Harding, Rotary, Perf 11 (613). Three unusually wide margins for this rarity, perfs barely touch at bottom, sharp impression, neat machine cancel, small thin spot and light vertical crease are not clearly evident

FINE APPEARANCE. A RARE EXAMPLE OF THE 2-CENT HARDING ROTARY PERF 11, WITH THREE ENORMOUS MARGINS.

Our census of the 2c Harding Rotary Perf 11 (as published in our Zoellner sale catalogue and updated at our website at www.siegelauctions.com/enc/census/613/613.htm) records 42 used singles (one faintly cancelled, if at all) and two used pairs. Of the singles, 25 are sound, but of these only six rate a grading of Very Fine or Extremely Fine.

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-33. With 1994 P.F. certificate.

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