24c Curtiss Jenny invert single
Object Details
- Description
- Mint 24-cent perforate stamp with the central image inverted; position 2, plate number 8493.
- This 24-cent stamp represents plate position 2 from the top row of the only sheet of one hundred Inverted Jennys sold by the Post Office Department. The bicolor stamp was printed from two printing plates, one for the carmine-colored stamp frame and one for the blue vignette. The printing error resulted from either a misfed sheet or the misorientation of one of the plates.
- Harry L. Jefferys bequeathed this stamp with his collection to Philadelphia's Franklin Institute in 1948. The Smithsonian's National Postal Museum received the Jefferys collection from the Franklin Institute in 1948. The Smithsonian's National Postal Museum received the Jefferys collection from the Franklin Institute in 2008.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- May 14, 1918
- Object number
- 2008.2006.666
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (carmine, blue); gum
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 7/8 x 1 in. (2.22 x 2.54 cm)
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- On View
- Currently on exhibit at the National Postal Museum
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA C3a
- Topic
- Harry L. Jefferys Collection
- The Gilded Age (1877-1920)
- Planes & Pilots
- National Stamp Collection
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2008.2006.666
