Inverted Jenny
This example of the Inverted Jenny is at the
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
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Inverted Jenny - World's Most Famous Invert
When the US issued its first Air Mail stamp, on May 13, 1918, collectors were on the lookout for invert errors.
Invert: The term generally used to describe any error where one portion of the design is inverted in relation to the other portion(s). An overprint applied upside down is also an invert.
Inverted Center:
Laid paper:
Shows closely spaced alternate light and dark lines when held up to a light.
Invert. A term used for stamps printed in two or more colors and which has the active area of one of the colors printed upside down. The most famous such invert is the U.S. 24-cent inverted "Jenny" airmail stamp of 1918.
Inverted Jenny - nickname for the 24¢ air mail error stamp of 1918 on which the airplane (vignette) was printed upside down in relation to the frame. Scott C3a.
Involute Flag Cancel - a flag cancel in which the flag is folded.
Invert The central design ('vignette') or portion of a stamp printed upside-down in relation to the frame, or vice versa.
Ivory Paper A type of glazed white paper.
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Invert: A term used to describe an error where the stamp is inverted.
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Keytype: A basic stamp design used of issue of two or many different stamps.
Invert - Refers to any part of a design is inverted in relation to the remaining design.
Interleaves - Tissue used between stamp album pages to prevent stamp contact.
Invert
Describes any one of a number of bi-colored stamps from all over the world with the center vignette upside down in relation to the frame.
Inverted Jenny - a misprinted U.S. postage stamp showing an inverted image of a blue airplane. The error occurred on the 24-cent airmail stamp of 1918.
Inverted imprints, or "inverts," most often occur when a handstamp is unknowingly picked up wrong-way-to by a postal clerk, ...
Invert
Stamp with one part of its design upside down in relation to the rest of the stamp.
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The Inverted Jenny is a famous error; philatelic study explains exactly how it happened.
Frame Inverted. A curious error (Spanish) where a part of the frame was inverted.
Fugitive. An ink intended to prevent cleaning of stamp cancels, which runs when in contact with water or other fluid.
Today, an Inverted Jenny comes on the market frequently enough to keep interest high. An unused, fine single has a 2002 Scott value of $170,000.
Pan-Am inverts: U.S. postage stamps issued for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, on sale from May 1 through Oct. 31, 1901; the 1¢, 2¢ and 4¢ stamps were printed with inverted centers.
The Story of the Inverted Jenny," and the discovery pane of the 1962 4-cent Dag Hammarskjold invert errors autographed by those who first recognized its rarity and significance.
If you discover a watermark variety such as an inverted watermark*, do not detach the selvage.
Two of the best known rare American stamps are the "Inverted Jenny" (which is actually a printing error) and the "1-cent Z grill" stamp.
3505a 1¢ Pan-American Invert (steamer)
3505b 2¢ Pan-American Invert (locomotive)
3505c 4¢ Pan-American Invert (automobile)
3505d 80¢ Buffalo stamp ...
Tete-Beche: French for ‘head to tail.’ Two or more unsevered stamps, one of which is inverted in relation to the other. Such an issue of Australian stamps in 2002 led to a most unusual pictorial postmark.
Variety -- A variation from the standard form of a stamp. Varieties include watermarks, inverts, imperforates, missing colors, wrong colors and major color shifts. See also Freak.
[1] Any kind of mistake in design or production, such as an inverted centre, a wrong watermark, or a lack of perforations in an issue meant to be perforated.
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