{"id":74383,"date":"2016-04-17T01:33:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T05:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=74383"},"modified":"2025-01-08T20:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T01:24:30","slug":"stolen-1955-famous-inverted-jenny-stamp-resurfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/04\/17\/stolen-1955-famous-inverted-jenny-stamp-resurfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen in 1955, famous \u2018inverted Jenny\u2019 stamp resurfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The inverted Jenny postage stamp, one of the world\u2019s most famous pieces of postage.
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NEW YORK \u2013 Opening a new chapter in an infamous stamp-world mystery, a valuable \u201cinverted Jenny\u201d stamp has surfaced six decades after it was stolen from a collectors\u2019 convention.<\/p>\n

The stamp \u2013 one of the world\u2019s most famous pieces of postage \u2013 was among four of its kind taken from a 1955 collectors\u2019 convention. While two were recovered over 30 years ago, there had been no sign of the others until this one was submitted to a New York auction house this month and authenticated.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of the most notorious crimes in philatelic history, and there\u2019s a piece of the puzzle now that\u2019s in place,\u201d said Scott English, the administrator of the American Philatelic Research Library, which owns the stamp and is working with auctioneers Spink USA and federal authorities to recover it.<\/p>\n

The would-be consigner, a man in his 20s who lives in the United Kingdom, said he\u2019d inherited the stamp from his grandfather and knew little about it, said George Eveleth, head of Spink USA\u2019s philatelic department. He said authorities had told the auctioneers not to release the name of the consigner, who is in his 20s.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s unclear whether the man can shed any light on the long-cold trail to the thieves, the stamp was accompanied by an intriguing item: a 1965 letter about a monetary loan from a noted stamp dealer to a well-known auctioneer, both now dead, Eveleth said. The letter isn\u2019t necessarily connected to this stamp, however.<\/p>\n

Still, the Bellefonte, Pennsylvania-based philatelic library hopes the stamp\u2019s discovery could lead to new clues.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to remain optimistic,\u201d English said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBecause think about it: Here we are, 61 years later, and a stamp has appeared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worth 24 cents when issued in 1918, inverted Jenny stamps fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars today. While other stamps are rarer, the Jenny is one of few that is readily recognized even by non-collectors, Eveleth said.<\/p>\n

It made its way into popular culture in movies such as 1985\u2019s \u201cBrewster\u2019s Millions,\u201d in which Richard Pryor\u2019s character uses one to mail a postcard, and television shows including \u201cThe Simpsons,\u201d in which Homer Simpson finds but disregards a sheet of them at a flea market. The Postal Service issued a commemorative inverted Jenny stamp in 2013.<\/p>\n

The original was made to celebrate the launch of U.<\/p>\n

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S. air mail. Some were printed with the Curtiss JN-4H \u201cJenny\u201d biplane inverted, and a savvy customer bought a 100-stamp sheet before anyone realized the error.<\/p>\n

Over the years, they were separated, coveted, counterfeited and narrowly saved from the blitzkrieg of London in World War II and from a flood in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

A block of four was on loan to the American Philatelic Society when stolen from a display case at its 1955 convention in Norfolk, Virginia.<\/p>\n

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The lender, who died in 1980, gave her rights to the stolen stamps to the society, which shares some ties with the American Philatelic Research Library.<\/p>\n

Two of the Jenny stamps were recovered in the \u201870s and \u201880s from different Chicago stamp connoisseurs, who said they\u2019d bought the stamps from people who had since died or whose names they didn\u2019t know, according to a 2014 article in American Philatelist, the society\u2019s journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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