A very fine Harding 2 Cent 11 Perf hard to come by in a good condition. Came from a Stanley Gibbons album straight to acid free album sheet. This beautiful design have no perforations touching the border which is evident in most of the Harding. Perfect horizontal centering and off vertical to top. Only 50 of the Perf 11 Rotary Press Stamps are known to exist of this nature. Wavey line machine cancel ref. History of Harding 2 Cent Stamp. 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. The item “Harding 1865-1923 2 cent Rotary Press Stamp Perf 11 Good-VG Rare Scott 613″ is in sale since Wednesday, March 24, 2021. This item is in the category “Stamps\North America\US”. The seller is “healthandbea62″ and is located in Ballarat, VIC. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Year of Issue: 1921-1930
• Colour: Greyish Black
• Modified Item: No
• Grade: G/VG (Good/Very Good)
• Quality: Used
• Denomination: 2 Cents
• Type: Postage
• Topic: Historical Figures
• Region of Origin: North America
• Country: US
• Cancellation Type: Machine Cancel