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Inverted Jenny
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Estimated value: US$3 million
The 24-cent Jenny stamp was the first
stamp for air-delivery issued in 1918. The stamps were printed on sheets
of 100, but each sheet had to be fed through the printing machine
twice. Therefore, it was very easy to accidently flip the sheet on the
second pass, and this is exactly what happened. One of these sheets was
printed with the jenny plane upside down, and sold before the error was
noticed. This was how the Inverted Jenny got created.
Only 100 pieces of the Inverted Jenny
can be found in the world nowadays. A block of 4 stamps was purchased in
2005, for US$3 million.
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