Maggie’s Inverted Jenny Flies Again!!!

[Greg Langelius *]

Just back from mailing holiday cards; picked up something special while I was there.

Back in my single digits I was one of those boy wonder stamp collectors. All us kid philatelists would keep a weather eye open for that impossibility among impossibilities, the notorious inverted Jenny US postage stamp.

It was a postal error, a red stamp with a blue Curtiss JN-1 'Jenny' printed on the center field; only a really small number of them got printed with the Jenny upside-down and even made it out the door; getting sold through the post office. Destined to become one of the world's rarest stamps in circulation, if you could get your hands on one today, it would literally be worth millions.

Well; USPS has reissued the Inverted Jenny, as a modern $2 stamp in all its dubious glory, true to its erroneous first issue.

You, too, can possess your very own inverted Jenny, plate block of six, for the paltry sum of but $12.

I have mine, do you?

Collectors, your mission is defined; availability will be limited.

Tongue securely in cheek; it remains, nevertheless, the absolute truth...

Greg

 

[pmclaine]

I remeber a short stamp collecting phase, buying a book, using the little cellophane tabs you had to lick and stick on both sides than secure your stamp in the book, getting stamps from the offering in the back of magazines for "hundreds" of stamps some possibly "valuable" and I think they used a picture of an upside down Jenny to entice the buyer.

Good times. Too bad Grand Theft Auto has supplanted such activity for kids.