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Lot 2116

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1923, 2¢ Harding, rotary, the perf. 11 sheet waste (613), actually well centered with wide, balanced margins on three sides, just clear at the right, light slogan cancel. Fresh and Fine.
Scott $42,500

AN IMPRESSIVE EXAMPLE OF THIS IMPORTANT TWENTIETH CENTURY RARITY.

Expertization: 2002 P.F. Certificate.

No definitive answer as to why the "sheet waste" stamps, Scott #596 and 613, were produced. One theory, put forward by Gary Griffith in his
United States Stamps, 1922-26, is that rotary press sheets of 400 were cut into panes of 100 and perforated on the perf. 11 machines that had been used for the flat plate stamps. This may have been done to salvage sheet waste, just as it was for the small coil waste sheets of 170, or it may have been done to replace damaged panes of #610 in post office decks of 100.

 
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