#613 Is There Any Real Believers

I see your 100,000 Pengos and raise you 1 million takas.

I would really, really, really like to see someone claim they have a rare stamp, post a picture, send it in for a cert, and then post their results here. It just hasn't happened ... and usually we never hear from them again. For example, on 5/6 goinpostal said he was going to post the two items that he was going to send in. Didn't happen. Oh well...

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS A #613 .........Lets try making this discussion something a new reader understands ........because I collected stamps for 60 years and have millions of them .......NOW what in the world is a 613 ???????.........

Floortrader -

It is US Scott #613. It is a 2c black stamp issued in 1923 to memorialize Pres Warren Harding, who had just passed away. There's a perf 11 flat plate version - #610 - and an imperf version - #611. Also, a perf 10 rotary version - #612. Those are all very common.

#613 is a rotary version that is perf 11 - it was produced from sheet waste. Catalog value is mid 5-figures & we can count on our fingers the number of them that have been found & certified. Yet over the past few months, every few days, we seem to have someone post a copy of #610 & claim it is a #613...

Here's an auction for all 3 common versions:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/US-Stamps-...AOSww-Bad0Mn

Thanks MDROTH , I am a little slow here ,if the title is garbage and nobody makes it clear what is being discussed me and all the new collectors get lost .

Good to see they moved this to the proper section ,because it was in a section about ebay and internet activity ,now its in the U.S. section it makes sense that a 618 is a U.S. stamp .

613 'looks like' ~ this...

Can someone please advise me what the millimeter size should be for the 613. A little bit under 22 vertical, and about 19 horizontally (the frame size) ?

??613??

19 1/4 by 22 1/2

Is this 613

As I recall, there was an article (I think in Linn's) a few years back about a collector in New England who purchased a large lot of 2-cent black Hardings ... and I do mean large. 6-figure large. If my memory is correct, after a long search (many months) he did indeed find a 613. At the time, he hadn't quite yet finished searching the entire lot ... and, at the time, he had found only one.
ADDED: I suspect my memory of the above is wrong in some of the details. Maybe someone can point me to the TRUE story.

Some Sc 613 info from Linn's stamp magazine.

https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamp...arding-.html

No known unused examples.

https://siegelauctions.com/display_...s.php?id=237