Misperfed Guatemala #279 Error?

I purchased a very small lot of stamps this past weekend and came across this stamp. Guatemala #279. Curious if other similar stamps exist for this issue. Thought I would share the scans.

If you're referring to Scott numbers, your stamp is actually Scott #235 and was issued with diagonal perforations (see Scott #300).

Not an error - an intentional bisect used in the early 1940s. See Scott #300.

The initial scott# of 279 was my type o...I meant # 235 which I see is the correct #. The scott# 300 is a 1 cent and the stamp I have is 2 cent. I don't see any bisected 2 cent in the catalog for this issue... unless because it's bisected it was considered half the face value @ 1 cent. I'm not familiar with worldwide so I find this unusual. I collect US stamps and made the purchase at a local fund raiser. Is this a common practice in world wide issues...to bisect a stamp and consider it 1/2 the original face value?

Thanks for the answers!
Don

Don, you'll notice that the listing for #300 has the denomination in parenthesis (1c), which is technically correct for a 2 cent bisect. I think this stamp was philatelically inspired and therefore, naturally quite common. I don't know of any stamps of this period (besides revenues and Belgium tabbed stamps with delivery restrictions) which purposely have extra perforations.

Thanks Jenny. Very interesting. I'm amazed bisecting a stamp would be considered. I can see from the value it doesn't seem to add or detract from value in comparison to other period stamp values too.

It's funny how this same stamp / topic, has come up before

https://goscf.com/t/37485#37485

I find this a very interesting stamp, though very common.

It was quite common in some countries to bisect stamps to pay the proper postage your stamp a number 300 is also called the 1c Bisect Provisional of 1941.
The Tipografia National perforated diagonally 2,000,000 copies of the 2c regular of 1929. The gauge of perforation was 11.8 and ran from upper right to lower left corners. A presidential decree dated July 22 941 authorized the creation of the provisional and it was released August 16 1941. The diagonal lines of perforations were set up about 19mm apart so each stamp would be divided equally. The work was poorly done and many stamps show shifted interrupted or omitted lines of perforations