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ULTRA RARE! 24c #C3a Inverted 'Jenny' - Colonel Green's Locket

$650,000.00

ULTRA RARE! 24c #C3a Inverted 'Jenny' - Colonel Green's Locket

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24c Inverted "Jenny" - The "Locket Copy"

Many of you know the story, but for those who don't, here it is ...

In 1918, the U.S. Post Office Department issued the first airmail stamp, picturing a Curtiss JN-4 airplane. It was a 24c bi-color stamp requiring two plates and two printing passes. Several of the sheets were printed incorrectly with the airplane upside down, or inverted. While all others were caught and destroyed, one of the errors was sold to William T. Robey at a post office in Washington, D.C., resulting in one of the most famous discoveries in U.S. stamp collecting history!

The legendary sheet of "Inverted Jennies" was then sold a week later to dealer Eugene Klein for $15,000, turning a hefty profit of $14,976 (quite a sum in those days)!

The sheet then went to Colonel E.H.R. Green for $20,000, who broke it up and sold most of it over the years, keeping select examples for himself.

This copy is known as 24c Carmine Rose & Blue, Center Inverted (C3a), encased in the original locket created by Col. Green for his wife, Mabel. Green had the the Invert, which is from position 9 with a natural straight edge at the top, placed into the locket back to back with a normal 24c. The invert, which is fresh and bright, has two trivial corner creases at the bottom from being too close to the edge of the locket at some time in its past. The gum has never been hinged!

Scott never hinged value is $1.1 million!

(Please note, the locket is clear with the stamps held between two pieces of glass!)

Provenance: Col. Green to his wife Mabel, to a close family friend.

Over the years, the Colonel had given Mabel many elaborate gifts, such as the $625,000 he gave her upon their marriage. However, the locket must have had some sentimental value because, although Green's stamps were sold upon his death in 1936, Mabel saved the locket until her own demise in 1950.

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