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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...

The Inverted Jenny is among the most rare -- and valuable -- U.S. postal stamps.. And now one may have been found in Broward County -- among piles of absentee ballots from this week's election. No one knows where the ballot came from. The person who cast the vote was not identified on the envelope containing the ballot, so the vote didn't count. Now the stamp -- which may be worth at least $200,000 -- is locked up with the rest of the ballots, because by law it must be held for a designated amount of time. County Commissioner...