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>From the Wikipedia Article on Inverted Jenny:

2006 Find
In November of 2006, election workers in Broward County, Florida
claimed to have found an Inverted Jenny affixed to an absentee ballot
envelope. The sender did not include any identification with the
ballot, which meant the ballot was disqualified.[5]

In a review of a digital photograph of this stamp, Peter Mastrangelo,
director of the Pennsylvania-based American Philatelic Society said,
"It is our opinion, from what we've seen, that this stamp is
questionable, and we are of the opinion at this point that it appears
to be a reproduction." He said an in-person review was needed to be
sure, but that all indications are that the stamp is a counterfeit.
"The perforations on top and bottom do not match our reference
copies." Mastrangelo said. "The colors of the blue ink are consistent
with the counterfeit."[6]


The counterfeit inverted Jenny affixed to the absentee ballot
envelopeOn November 13, 2006, an elderly Sarasota, Florida man
contacted SNN News 6, claiming to be the man who mailed the ballot.
Dan Jacoby says the stamp he used is a commemorative stamp that is
worth about 50 cents.[7]

On December 4, 2006, it was confirmed that this stamp used on the
ballot was a counterfeit.[8] Inside the Broward County Elections
Office in Florida, experts studied the stamp and decided that the
method used to print it and the perforations along the sides were
evidence of the stamp being fake.

This story recalls a plot point from the 1985 movie version of
Brewster's Millions, in which a man named Brewster (played by Richard
Pryor) was challenged to spend thirty million dollars in thirty days.
One of the many things he did in his attempt was to use an Inverted
Jenny to mail a post card.

AsB4,

Henry

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On 4/23/08, Bekah wrote:
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> 866.6  Jenny Invert
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> The inverted Jenny (or Jenny Invert) is a United States postage stamp first
> issued on May 10, 1918 in which the image of the Curtiss JN-4 airplane in
> the center of the design was accidentally printed upside-down; it is
> probably the most famous error in American philately. Only 100 of the
> inverts were ever found, making this error one of the most prized in all
> philately; an inverted Jenny was sold at a Robert A. Siegel auction in
> November 2007 for US$977,500.[1] A block of four inverted Jennys was also
> sold at a Robert A. Siegel auction in October 2005 for US$2.7m.[2] In
> December of 2007, a mint, never hinged example, meaning one not previously
> affixed to a stamp album, was sold to an unidentified Wall Street executive
> for $825,000.[3] The broker of the sale says the buyer is a collector who
> lost the auction the previous month mentioned above.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_Jenny
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> ME:  needless to say it reminds me of Pierce Inverarity
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