Posted on 12/30/2013 1:32:20 PM PST by Doogle
BUFFALO, N.Y. – A collector credits a hunch with helping him land one of just 100 sheets of stamps recently issued by the United States Postal Service featuring a corrected version of its rare and famous error, the 1918 "inverted Jenny."
Art Van Riper bought the stamps in Waverly, N.Y., after reading that the Postal Service had printed a new batch of inverted Jenny stamps celebrating the 95-year-old edition that, by mistake, featured an upside-down biplane.
He also read that, as a way to draw more people into stamp collecting, the Postal Service randomly distributed 100 sheets featuring the plane right-side up among the 2.2 million sheets replicating the original and distributed nationwide.
"I needed some stamps and thought `what the heck,"' Van Riper said by phone earlier this month from his Sayre, Pa., home, on the New York border. "I just had a feeling that maybe there would be one in Waverly."
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A made-up deliberate modern “error” to get people to buy more stamps?
Maybe they should have a secret fan club with a decoder ring to “Be sure to drink your ovalatene”
Do they really have to resort to that?
Meanwhile - the only stamps I could get for Christmas cards were ones of gingerbread houses. How about prinitng up a few million more ones with a baby on it???
Bammy has the US headed for Zero-Zero Island.
In other news, Clem Morrison’s cow got out this morning and wandered onto the dirt road over by Hanley’s Blacksmith shop. Check back for updates.
*lol*...hey,25 grand is nothing to sneeze at
A true collector for the sake of value is one thing, but those who collect stamps for their rarity are a special bunch, who love the details of details. I tried to like chess and stamp collecting years ago. I tried to like both many times. People would say, “As smart as you are, you’d love it” Chess bored me into a trance state. Stamps, I can only roll my eyes and say, so what? To each his own right?
that's 40 miles from here...
And only about 2300 miles from here! Small world!
that's only cause you're going the short way, go the other direction and it's not so small... 8^)
Heh. I've got 4 sheets of these in my inventory. Will be looking through them first thing in the morning. Hadn't even heard about this.
Like the Reagan Forever stamps, when I asked for Jenny reissue stamps, the a-holes at my local “big town” post office didn’t have any... and I was told to go online.
No... I walked to the post office, I am here, sell me the g-d damned stamps.
It would like walking into an auto parts store and they have no bolts. Go online? Sheesh.
“A made-up deliberate modern “error” to get people to buy more stamps? ... Do they really have to resort to that?”
A few years back some group put some old American coins back in circulation to try to spur interest in coin collecting. I doubt it worked; people who collected for years were tired of being told how little they were worth after sitting on them for 40 years...
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