Jenny is inverted once again

I pre-ordered one of these - who knows how popular they will be, so I jumped on it.

 

Yes, it's hard to pass up. There it is, one of the most famous stamps in "stamp-dom" , so much so that even a noob like me knows about it. Plus it fits my interest in modes of transportaion, so it's a "two-fer" . I'm not going for the $200
deluxe set, but it does look really nice.

 

Nice set of intentionally inverted Jenny stamps.

 

now you boys have your shiny new Jennys, have you thought about giving me your crumply old ones?

 

I only wish I had crumply old Jenny to give.

 

That's right you hang onto it ha ha ha

 

Once I find out the total printing, which I think is 10 million I know I will get a few, even to use on mail...

 

welcome back PD, where have you been?

 

Yes, welcome back policedriver.

 

couldn't count on the local post office stocking those, so ordered 4 sheetlets from the Philatelic Center. I guess they'll ship sometime after Sept 22nd.

They won't be quite as rare as the originals unless they goof up and make one of the sheetlets with the plane flying right side up. Now wouldn't that be irony? Just don't be like the guy who bought the sheet of Dag Hamerskold (sp ?) invert or Legends of the West. If you get an error, sit on it for at least a couple of years before any revelation, then the post office won't be in a position to immediately re-issue the error in bulk.

 

Are you able to one for me? I would send you the money through paypal?

 

I think that can be done....not sure how, exactly, but there must be a way.

 

Do you mean you think you can get me the stamps or is it possible to send you money thorugh paypal, the latter is easy?

 

PM sent.

 

PM replied to

 

Twelve dollars is a little high for a souvenir sheet. That's why I quit collecting US stamps in the 1980s......
Chris

 

Yeah. The least the USPS could have done is make it 48 cents (double the 24 cents of the original) to make it usable for 1st class postage (kinda like a semipostal). Probably didn't want to make it 24 cents. Too many gullible collectors would buy one at an inflated price thinking they were gettting a steal on a rare stamp, given a recently unearthed large cache of hitherto unkown inverts had just just been discovered?????

My guess is if you don't purchase them thru the USPS philatelic fullfiment center out of Kansas City, you'll be hard pressed to buy them at you local post office. Then expect to pay thru the nose with you local/remote stamp dealer.

It's all part of the big conspiracy by the USPS to get the collector to subsidize postal operations by having to buy an intact sheet to get single stamps / issuing multitudes of large denomination stamps (the new $1, $2, $5, and $10 'wave stamps' come to mine) / frequent changes to the priority and express mail rates to justify issuane of those new stamps (but the USPS uses metered postage instead so they don't have to stock those stamps in the local offices).. Bah humbug! I'll buy some excess of them, then use them to spite the USPS!

 

OK - so it's here! Shipped on the date of issuance and about 3 days to get here

http://www.stampexchange.com/gallery/image/400-jenny-invert/