ETHEL MCCOY
Million dollar mistake: A 24-cent stamp became one of America’s rarest due to a printing error. It turned the stamp into a collector’s prize worth $2 millionThe 1918 “Inverted Jenny” stamp was originally sold for just 24 cents, but a printing mistake left the Curtiss JN-4 airplane upside down. O...
In 1918, a Washington clerk spent $24 on 100 stamps during his lunch break. Every plane was upside down, one later sold for $2 millionA Washington clerk bought a sheet of stamps with an upside-down airplane design. This rare error, the Inverted Jenny, was later sold for a ...
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