Airplane Stamp Brings Record Price
Published November 19th, 2007
An example of the “Inverted Jenny” error stamp sold for $977,500 — including the 15% buyer’s premium — at an auction held last Wednesday by Siegel Auction Galleries in New York City. The buyer was Charles Hack, a private collector.
The price is highest ever paid at auction for a single copy of the “Inverted Jenny” error. The stamp comes from the sheet of 100 bought at the post office for $24 in 1918 by a stamp collector named William T. Robey.
The 24-cent stamp was issued for the first government airmail flight in May 1918. On the error stamps, the blue airplane in the center of the design is upside down, the result of a printer’s error. The name “Jenny” is the nickname given to the Curtiss JN-4H biplane on the stamp, which was the first type of plane used to carry mail.
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