I agree with the previous comments and would just add that as a device to encourage stamp collecting, the use of a $2 stamp is not a very good idea.
It's probably going to be something collected by the philatelic community and a few airplane enthusiasts more than anyone else and will be forgotten from most beginner collections, primarily because as a "souvenir sheet" you can't buy just one stamp, but have to pay for the whole $12 sheet even if all you want is just one stamp.
It will be curious to see what the final print run for the stamps are to be. I suspect we'll also see press sheets at a hefty price, too.
While the USPS has qualified the announcement with the note that this is "preliminary artwork" and "subject to change", here are the images as posted:
On Facebook:
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It's back! Perhaps the most famous error in the history of U.S. stamps - the Inverted Jenny - will be featured on a souvenir sheet to be released later this year. Reprinted with a $2 denomination to make them easy to distinguish from the 24-cent originals, the Inverted Jenny stamps will commemorate the many ways a single stamp can turn a moment in history upside down. (Stamp design shown reflects preliminary artwork and may be subject to change.)
On Beyond the Perf:
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This souvenir sheet features a new version of perhaps the most famous error in the history of U.S. stamps: the Inverted Jenny, a 1918 misprint that highlights the ways a single stamp can turn history upside down.
The sheet includes six Inverted Jenny stamps, reprinted with an updated denomination and surrounded by an illustration that includes the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C.; the route of the first regularly scheduled airmail service between Washington, Philadelphia, and New York; and aviation pioneer Reuben H. Fleet, who was in charge of the first group of airmail pilots.
Originally issued on May 14, 1918, to commemorate the start of the first regular airmail service the following day, the original Jenny stamp was designed to show a Curtiss JN-4H, or "Jenny," the biplane used to deliver the mail. However, one sheet of 100 stamps that mistakenly showed the biplane upside down was sold on the first day of issue to a collector in Washington, D.C. — and one of the greatest philatelic treasures in U.S. history was released into the world.
The art director for this souvenir sheet was Antonio Alcalá. The selvage artwork was created by Steven Noble.
The new Inverted Jenny stamp is being reprinted with a $2 denomination to make it easily distinguishable from the 24-cent 1918 original.
Already there are variances in the designs, as the "2013" date in the upper left corner is in red on the Facebook design and in black on the Beyond the Perf design.
Posted 01/18/2013 1:41 pm
