OT Inverted Jenny Stamp used for mail!!!

fastrudy

Unbeleivable!
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1108rare-stamp08-ON.html

fastrudy

will smoebody tell me how to link?

techeff

Welcome to the Stamp Forum

IGWT

Link. Only in the land of the hanging chads . . .

BigE

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IGWT

Wow. We're a helpful crew.

StampAlarm

<< <i>Welcome to the Stamp Forum >>




Dang! We would of loved to have had this posted in the Stamps Forum.



Jerry

cheezhed

<< <i>will smoebody tell me how to link? >>



Above the message box where you type your text, there are several buttons, one of which is labled "http".

Click on that and a box will open asking for the url of the link.

Paste the url you want to link into that box.

Next, type whatever you want to name the link.

Pentimento

Please... a widow uses one of the 4 unknown stamps to vote and forgets to include any info about herself inside? No way that thing is real. Anyone who has been to art school knows about the infamous "create a stamp by hand and get it past the USPS" assignment. Really.

fastrudy

thanks tom

fastrudy

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StampAlarm

<< <i>Please... a widow uses one of the 4 unknown stamps to vote and forgets to include any info about herself inside? No way that thing is real. Anyone who has been to art school knows about the infamous "create a stamp by hand and get it past the USPS" assignment. Really. >>





Well, I hope someone has the smarts to send it to PSE so we can all find out.



Jerry

WoodenJefferson

anyone care to see one?

Coxe

So, has Scott Travers crossed over to stamps now?

Connecticoin

I have not collected stamps for years, but I think the USPS may have issued a souvenir sheet with Inverted Jenny reproductions, which may have been used on the ballot envelope.

But, maybe not -- maybe a stamp collector with money to burn trying to ignite interest in stamp collecting!!

19Lyds

For those that are interested:

jpkinla

That is amazing! What about the $10 Rolled Edge in MS66 that the Post Office lost:

Mailman gets time for stealing $10 Rolled Edge Coin

They aren't making anymore of these rarities!

mrearlygold

Incredible

stevek

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I had just bought a roll of 39 cent stamps with the Statue of Liberty printed upside down. I just figured it was defective and so I took it back to the post office where the man behind the counter very nicely exchanged it for a properly printed roll.

laceupboots

I bet he still has the stamps too.

nucklehead

<< <i>I bet he still has the stamps too. >>

And retired after selling them.

stevek

'Jenny' stamp on ballot is likely a fake Tue Nov 14, 10:25 PM ET

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A stamp thought to be rare and valuable that was used to mail an absentee ballot now appears to be a fake, an expert said Tuesday.

The stamp thought to be the famous Inverted Jenny stamp was discovered as Broward County officials reviewed absentee ballots for the Nov. 7 elections. An official noticed the stamp was from 1936 and had an upside-down World War I-era airplane — the hallmark of an Inverted Jenny.

Broward elections officials on Monday showed the stamp to reporters and photographers before putting it back into a safe deposit box, said Mary Cooney, the elections office spokeswoman. Images were sent to stamp experts.

Peter Mastrangelo, director of the American Philatelic Society, said after reviewing a digital photo that the stamp appeared to be counterfeit.

A true Inverted Jenny could have been worth as much as $300,000, Mastrangelo said.

There was no name on the envelope, so the vote didn't count. Under Florida law, elections officials will retain the ballot with the stamp for 22 months, according to the Florida secretary of state's office. After that, any action is up to the county elections supervisor.

The 24-cent Jenny stamps were printed in 1918. Sheets were run through presses twice to process all the colors, and on one pass, four Jenny sheets went through backward. Inspectors caught the errors on three sheets and destroyed them, but somehow, a sheet of 100 stamps got through.

StampAlarm

"...stamp appeared to be counterfeit..." Well, someone is going to have to look at it in person. So, I guess we'll just have to wait. Still a neat story.



Jerry