Hello and welcome to a pretty Spring day in the American Midwest.
It is time for Sunday Stamps, and the theme is our choice.
I am showing the US Postal Service's reprint (at a different denomination) of one of the most famous misprints in stamp history, the "Inverted Jenny:"
The original air mail stamp, with a face denomination of 24 cents, was printed in 1918. Only one sheet seems to have gone through the printing press upside down - 100 stamps.
Prices at auction for single stamps vary from $500 K to a million US Dollars.
More at Wikipedia's entry (lots of detail). Interesting detail I might add.
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3 comments:
I've got one of the new ones, but never seen a real Inverted Jenny!
Neither have I. Except pictures on the internet.
I suppose it's pretty good that the mistake was caught after only one sheet - especially for collectors. For me, this would be good enough for my collection!
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