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US Scott 4806, Inverted Jenny Biplane, $2 Airmail, Mint, Unused Single

Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 One of the most famous misprints in American stamp history gets a new life. This is a single US Scott 4806 Curtis Jenny Biplane $2.00 single. Every collector needs at least one of them in their collection. Mint and in Unused condition. Compare my price with other dealers selling at $7.50 plus $2.25 shipping. Save $5.96 by purchasing mine. If you would like a minature sheet of 6 of this stamp, just place a 6 in the quantity box. Following is the story about the original error stamp of 1918: A MISTAKE THAT MADE HISTORY Twenty-nine-year-old cashier William T. Robey couldn’t have known what lingered in the shadow of the morning hours on May 14, 1918. But he did have a sense of anticipation when he went to work in Washington, D.C., that day. The small-scale (“vest pocket”) stamp dealer had withdrawn $30 from his bank account, intent upon buying a sheet of the new 24-cent airmail stamps. The postage marked the start of regularly scheduled airmail service and sported its first aircraft — the Curtiss JN-4H biplane, dubbed “the Jenny.” Robey knew the airmail stamp was a bicolor design, which meant each sheet had to be placed on the press by hand, two separate times. This extra handling, he suspected, might have spawned printing errors. And flaws can turn stamps into gold. When he purchased his copy of the sheet, he famously said his “heart stood still”: Each of the biplanes depicted in the center of the stamps was upside down. After a week of bidding wars that engaged some of philately’s largest personas, Robey sold the sheet to Philadelphia stamp dealer Eugene Klein for $15,000 (an enormous sum during a time when the country’s annual family income hovered around $1,500). In the decades since their discovery, the Inverted Jenny stamps have continued to bewitch both philatelists and noncollectors alike. Single copies and blocks of four still headline at auctions, and even popular culture has taken note — the Inverted Jenny made a cameo appearance in a 1993 episode of The Simpsons. Daniel Piazza, curator of philately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, believes the magic of the stamp is in the threads of its story. “There is something about that moment in time — the romance of early aviation, the striking visual of an upside-down airplane, the famous people who owned the errors over the years — that makes the story more enduring.”

Price: 3.33 USD

Location: Bristow, Virginia

End Time: 2024-11-23T18:22:34.000Z

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US Scott 4806, Inverted Jenny Biplane, $2 Airmail, Mint, Unused Single

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Certification: Uncertified

Grade: VF (Very Fine)

Place of Origin: United States

Quality: Mint Never Hinged/MNH

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