The Inverted Jenny Stamp Reissued
by Charles Robinson
Title
The Inverted Jenny Stamp Reissued
Artist
Charles Robinson
Medium
Photograph - Postage Stamp Collection
Description
On October 2, 2013, the United States Postal Service reissued a limited edition of the rare 24 cent inverted Jenny Air Mail Stamp. This is a block of that the reissued inverted jenny stamps.
On May 14, 1918, the Postal Service issued a 24 cent stamp commemorating the beginning the start of regularly scheduled airmail service in the United States. The stamp featured the Curtiss JN-4H, a biplane known as the �jenny.� When the first 100 stamp sheet of stamps was sold in Washington, DC it was discovered that the jenny had been inverted and printed upside down. The stamps were immediately taken out of circulation. That single sheet of stamps with the inverted jenny was eventually broken up and sold, creating some of the most coveted collectibles in the world.
In 2007, a single inverted jenny stamp from that original sheet sold at auction for $825,000. In 2005, a block of four stamps of four inverted jenny stamps sold at auction for $2.7 million
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March 18th, 2014
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