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Maggie’s Inverted Jenny Flies Again!!!

Greg Langelius *

Greg Langelius *

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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-4 '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, its design faithful and true to its erroneous initial 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; this remains, nevertheless, the absolute truth...

Greg
 
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Greg Langelius * said:
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-4 '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, its design faithful and true to its erroneous initial 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; this remains, nevertheless, the absolute truth...

Greg
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All truth is relative. Except mine.
 
#7
Did they tell you that out of this collection that are intentionally inverted, that there will be (I forget how many) actually right side up, as an additional collector value.
 
#9
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A collector credits a hunch with helping him land one of just 100 sheets of stamps recently issued by the United States Postal Service featuring a corrected version of its rare and famous error, the 1918 "inverted Jenny."

Art Van Riper bought the stamps in Waverly, N.Y., after reading that the Postal Service had printed a new batch of inverted Jenny stamps celebrating the 95-year-old edition that, by mistake, featured an upside-down biplane.

He also read that, as a way to draw more people into stamp collecting, the Postal Service randomly distributed 100 sheets featuring the plane right-side up among the 2.2 million sheets replicating the original and distributed nationwide.

"I needed some stamps and thought 'what the heck,'" Van Riper said by phone earlier this month from his Sayre, Pa., home, on the New York border. "I just had a feeling that maybe there would be one in Waverly."

He intended to purchase five sheets of the $2 stamps, at $12 a sheet, and use them to mail Christmas presents and for stocking stuffers. Postal clerk Betty Gable persuaded him to take more.

"I told him our office had 45 and he might as well buy them all," she said. The last one would probably be the one with the right-side up airplane, she told him.

"I'll be a son-of-a-gun it was," said Van Riper, who has a jewelry store and said he collects oddities ranging from baseball cards to old steins.

Van Riper's was the fourth of the 100 sheets to turn up since the post office launched the campaign in September, USPS spokesman Mark Saunders said. One of the four is listed at $25,000 online, Van Riper said, but he doesn't have plans to sell his sheet.

Among stamp collectors, the inverted Jenny, produced by a printing error, is gold. Only one sheet of 100 stamps commemorating the nation's first airmail flight was sold. One of the stamps recently sold for $977,000, according to the Postal Service.
 
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I have done volunteer work helping build a flying full scale replica aircraft (the Curtiss America) in the Curtiss Museum restoration shop. I did a lot of the copper rivets attaching fuselage stringers to the internal 'hoop' frames.

Volunteer builders' video The line of builders is standing in front of the yet-to-be-covered upper wing's framework. I did this work as a part of my cardiac rehab.

After the video ends, you can also select other related videos, including those surrounding the America's first flight. At the time, our replica was the world's largest flying biplane with a wingspan of 75ft. It now resides indoors as a museum display. All of the early Curtiss replica aircraft on display were built in the restoration shop, and most of them have flown.
Greg
 
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Greg Langelius * said:
I have done volunteer work helping build a flying full scale replica aircraft (the Curtiss America) in the Curtiss Museum restoration shop. I did a lot of the copper rivets attaching fuselage stringers to the internal 'hoop' frames.

Volunteer builders' video The line of builders is standing in front of the yet-to-be-covered upper wing's framework. I did this work as a part of my cardiac rehab.

After the video ends, you can also select other related videos, including those surrounding the America's first flight. At the time, our replica was the world's largest flying biplane with a wingspan of 75ft. It now resides indoors as a museum display. All of the early Curtiss replica aircraft on display were built in the restoration shop, and most of them have flown.
Greg
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Your as odd looking as I thought you would be....$:<)
 
#14
As a kid, I collected stamps. Got quite a nice collection if I say so myself. I also have my father's collection. Recently, i took them to be appraised since I am no longer collecting and was told that they were worth less than the face value to a collector and to use them for postage. Wont waste another penny on stamps.
 
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