Inverted Jenny: Famous U.S. Stamps
As we know the most expensive and collectable stamps are those that have one or another oversight called a printing error. Take the “Yellow - Sweden – 1885″ as an example. Thanks to a printing error this stamp became one of the most expensive and unique stamps in the world. Likewise the “1 and 2 Penny - Mauritius – 1847“, on which the watchmaker made an error and printed “Post Office” instead of “Post Paid” on both types of stamps.
Last year, namely at the end of December, one of the most famous postage stamps in the USA philately history sold for $825,000 to an unidentified Wall Street executive. The “Inverted Jenny” is a United States postage stamp of 1918 in which the image of the Curtiss JN-4 airplane in the center of the design was accidentally printed upside-down.
Accoring to Heritage Auction Galleries president Greg Rohan, the buyer is the same collector who lost an auction last month in which another “Inverted Jenny” sold for $977,500.
By the way, the mint condition red, white and blue stamp is one of the finest known surviving stamps from the original sheet of 100 misprints. The original 100 were bought at a Washington, D.C., post office in 1918.
Invert errors occur when part of a postage stamp is
printed upside-down. Such stamps are quite rare and highly valued by collectors. Sure thing not every inverted stamp is valuable, e.g. the Dag Hammarskjöld invert of 1962 consists only of a misprinted yellow layer.
Errors, gaps and oversights make these small pieces of paper a part of history. We should take this fact into consideration.
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