Jenny is inverted once again

My eyes are playing tricks on me! I read the topic as "Jenny is introverted once again". "Who's Jenny, maybe she is having some issues in real life so she is becoming introverted again......" Well, seeing as that's not the case, it's quite a relief

 

It was originally issued by the US post office as a 24 cent stamp (Scott # C3 - airmail). Someone who bought a sheet of them at a post office noted that the biplane in each stamp frame was inverted. He went back to the postal clerk to ask if he had anymore of those particular sheets. Clerk noted the discrepancy and demanded the sheet be returned, and the purchaser said no. So there are only 100 known 'inverted' copies of the originally issued stamps.

Now the USPS is commemorating their screwup by issuing a booklet of 6 each $2 stamps that will likely never be used for postage. Immediate profit for them. And a place for you to park your excess cash ! ! !

 

This is certainly an interesting piece of stamp collecting you have here. I am thinking about getting me one also. I have just started my stamp collecting more so as a hobby and not anything else. If I make a little money with it that will be okay, if not that is okay also.

 

There are still supposed to be 90-something of the right-side-up Jenny sheets out there. I read that a few have been found - not by me, unfortunately.

 

Can I get a sheet of the inverted Jenny? How much does it cost? Maybe it will
be worth as much as the originals some day.

 

Going through some of the historical posts... by now you know there are 100 sheets printed right side up and, those that have been found, are going for upwards of 5 figures.

I bought 6 or 7 packages myself and HAVE NOT opened them... I'm in no hurry. So maybe I have one of the remaining sheets that have not been found yet?

 

Believe it or not, I got a box of books the other day from a stamp seller and he had taken the entire sheet ($12) as part of the postage.

UNFORTUNATELY: either he or the wonderful Post Office put box tape over the entire set... I imagine the weight of the books was messing up the box and they 'band-aided' the thing together. Thought about keeping the box anyway but then said no...

 

Larry, I did read an article where the USPS did actually print 100 of the new sheets with the plane right side up. I am not sure how much to believe it, One article said an avid collector purchase several thousand dollars and finally got one. He apparently sold it for $40,000. http://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps...ght-jenny-invert-panes-given-away-but-no.html

 

Have all of the right side up Jenny been accounted for? I haven't seen anything about the quantity found thus far.

 

I have since quit the 'lottery' (though I bought $100 each of the Texas and Tennessee 1st day tickets many years ago when they opened... ZERO!!!), choosing instead for 'trolling for treasures' with kiloware and other groupings. I am like many here... enjoy the hunt and once in a while you are surprised.

That is why I am trading with folks now... have tens of thousands I don't need. And I am collecting 4 sets and keeping an inventory of 5 on top of that so I am DEFINITELY in trading mode.