The Inverted Jenny

One of the most famous stamps ever issued is the so-called Inverted Jenny, a 1918 airmail issue that shows a Curtiss JN-4 biplane (known as a “Jenny”) flying upside down. Only one sheet of 100 of these stamps has ever been found, and a block of four sold for $1 million in 1989.

 

 

 

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