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Jenny invert - real or fake?
Hi,
I'm doing research on the 1918 Jenny Invert, for personal interest. I found a picture of one that appears to be used. Is it real or fake? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ykerzner/3478723300/ |
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Jenny invert - real or fake?
On Apr 26, 8:25*pm, yoyo wrote:
Hi, I'm doing research on the 1918 Jenny Invert, for personal interest. I found a picture of one that appears to be used. Is it real or fake? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ykerzner/3478723300/ I saved the picture to my computer, then uploaded it. |
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Jenny invert - real or fake?
I did some more research, and established that this stamp is nearly
identical to a stamp recently sold on ebay by a known forger. The watermark - 8:30 PM on May 29 - was the same. |
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Jenny invert - real or fake?
Tall tales, or true ? Democracy comes at a high price in Florida Voter mails in ballot with stamp that may be worth US$500,000 Saturday, November 11, 2006 MIAMI - A Florida voter may have unwittingly lost hundreds of thousands of dollars by using an extremely rare stamp to mail an absentee ballot in Tuesday's congressional elections, a government official said yesterday. The 1918 Inverted Jenny stamp, which takes its name from an image of a biplane accidentally printed upside down, turned up on Tuesday night in Fort Lauderdale, where election officials were inspecting ballots from parts of south Florida, said John Rodstrom, the Broward County Commissioner. Only 100 of the stamps have ever been found, making them one of the top prizes among philatelists. Mr. Rodstrom, a member of the county's canvassing board, said he spotted the red-and-blue Inverted Jenny on a large envelope with two stamps from the 1930s and another dating to the Second World War . The nominal value of the four vintage U.S. Post Office stamps was 87 cents, he said. "I thought, 'Oh my God, I know that stamp. I've seen that stamp before,' " said Mr. Rodstrom, 54, who dabbled in stamp collecting as a boy. "I'd forgotten the name. I just remembered there was a stamp with an upside-down biplane on it and that it was a very rare, rare stamp." He said he did not examine the envelope's postmark, but it had no return address. As such, the ballot was disqualified because it gave no clue as to the identity of the voter. Election officials have been too busy certifying the outcome of Tuesday's race to have the stamp authenticated, Mr. Rodstrom said. However, a block of four of the stamps sold for almost US$3 million last year. Mr. Rodstrom said the one that turned up on Tuesday night could fetch about US$500,000 for Broward County at auction. "It's now government property," he said. A postmark on a stamp usually would hurt its value, but Mr. Rodstrom said the story behind this one -- plus the fact it is joined by other old stamps on the envelope -- might actually increase its worth. The commissioner said he doubted the stamp would ever be handed over to someone claiming to have mailed it inadvertently. "It would be hard to prove. I guess you would have to say it was a person who had Alzheimer's," he said. "yoyo" wrote in message ... I did some more research, and established that this stamp is nearly identical to a stamp recently sold on ebay by a known forger. The watermark - 8:30 PM on May 29 - was the same. |
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Jenny invert - real or fake?
"rodney" wrote in message
... Tall tales, or true ? Democracy comes at a high price in Florida Voter mails in ballot with stamp that may be worth US$500,000 True but fake, apparently: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/us...gewanted=print http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n2182281.shtml -- Victor Manta ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philatelic Webmasters Organization: http://pwmo.org/ Art on Stamps: http://artonstamps.org/ Romania by Stamps: http://marci-postale.com/ Communism on Stamps: http://reds-on.postalstamps.biz/ Spanish North Africa: http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Jenny invert - real or fake?
In a recent message yoyo wrote:
I did some more research, and established that this stamp is nearly identical to a stamp recently sold on ebay by a known forger. The watermark - 8:30 PM on May 29 - was the same. Odd watermark... Postmark, perchance? I have a scarce Italian stamp with a forged postmark. This was confirmed when an Auction Catalogue mentioned an identical stamp with identical postmark! -- Tony Clayton Coins of the UK : http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk Sent using RISCOS on an Acorn Strong Arm RiscPC .... I'm no stranger, just a friend you haven't met... |
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Jenny invert - real or fake?
"yoyo" wrote in message
... Hi, I'm doing research on the 1918 Jenny Invert, for personal interest. I found a picture of one that appears to be used. Is it real or fake? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ykerzner/3478723300/ Clearly fake. There is only one sheet (100) of inverted Jennys known and all are unused. The owners of most are known. Stan |
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Jenny invert - real or fake?
Hi
the flower is water hyacinth, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_hyacinth yoyo schreef: Hi, I'm doing research on the 1918 Jenny Invert, for personal interest. I found a picture of one that appears to be used. Is it real or fake? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ykerzner/3478723300/ |
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