ATD p. 978--9

[Anville Azote]

"It seemed that young Ewball had been using postage stamps from the
1901 Pan-American Issue, commemorating the Exposition of that name in
Buffalo, New York, where the Anarchist Czolgosz had assassinated
President McKinley.  These stamps bore engraved vignettes of the
latest in modern transportation, trains, boats, and so forth, and by
mistake, some of the one-cent, two-cent, and four-cent denominations
had been printed with these center designs upside down.  One thousand
Fast Lake Navigation, 158 Fast Express and 206 Automobile inverts had
been sold before the errors were caught, and before stamp-collector
demand had driven their prices quite through the roof [as Genghis
Cohen could tell you! -A. A.], Ewball, sensitive to the Anarchistic
symbolism, had bought up and hoarded as many as he could find to mail
his letters with."

And about those Automobile inverts:

"Misregistration of the vignette was not as widespread on this stamp
as on the 1¢ and 2¢ stamps. Inverts are known, but are the result of
deliberate manipulation, not the result of error as were the one cent
and two cent inverts. Still, this has not diminished the desirability
of the contrived four cent invert, it actually brings a higher premium
than the one cent invert, a non-philatelic invert, and is nearly equal
in stature to the non-philatelic two cent invert."

http://www.1847usa.com/identify/YearSets/1901.htm

"Deliberate manipulation," you say?

Interestingly enough, the very next page after this encounter with
postage stamps mentions an "OEdipal spectacle".

-A. A.