Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Inverted Jenny

Today is mystery day in the States. First I talked about a disappearing Goya, and now about a priceless stamp. A civil servant of the Broward County in Florida said that when he was counting the votes, he saw one that had been sent by mail, with a inverted Jenny stamp. This kind of stamp is very rare, they only produced 700 of them back in 1918, but only 100 were sold to costumers. That is the reason why it is priceless.

The motive in the stamp is a Curtis-JN4, a plane used by the US Air Force during WWI, but the plane is printed upside down. We will have to wait to see the stamp, because right now the votes are kept in a cage for the following 22 months.

Vía: El País

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