The Right-Side-Up, Not The Upside-Down, Jenny Stamp

A block of the famous right-side-up version of the “Inverted Jenny” postage stamp sold for $59,250 at a February James Julia auction. One sheet of the 1918 stamp had been misprinted with the biplane upside down. A block of four of the misprinted stamps sold for $1.5 million in 2005. A plate-number block of four sold in 2014 for over $4.8 million. In 2013, the post office reissued the Inverted Jenny stamp to commemorate the most famous of all misprints. It secretly added 100 new sheets of six-stamp blocks of the right-side-up Jenny, making a misprint of a misprint. Over 2 million of the… Read more…