Inverted Jenny 2013 Error?

This sheet has 3 stamps missing some color in the arch.

Pretty common the over runs and under runs or what ever you want to called them are all over the board. The rare ones are the ones that came out perfect. :)

Thanks, This is the first set of stamps I have bought to collect. I was not going to open the package but it was too tempting. The stamps are really nice looking. I wish they were perfect though. I was hoping they would be right side up. That would have to be an error.

Now that is funny. Welcome to the forum Jenny2013

Does the bleeding ink on the upper right hand corner happen on a lot of these so far?

https://www.stampcommunity.org/uplo...3_Invert.jpg

These are a few of mine and most that I have do so.

Would you suggest buying more and hope for better examples or is it more than likely they are all the same at my local Post Office?

I am sorry for all the questions. I am totally new to collecting stamps and don't want to buy a bunch of stamps that are considered poor quality. On the other hand if there is a possibility they would be more collectible than the perfect examples I would get a few more sets. I know it might be too early to tell but I thought I would go ahead and ask what others think.

Thanks. Kris

IMHO they printed so many they will never be a high value collecting item either way. Buy as many as you like but don't buy for investment.

Apparently the "error" here is to be right side up.
http://about.usps.com/news/national...pr13_079.htm

LOL now this might make this group of stamps start to sell out fast. I bet me finding one of the sheets in poo-dunk rural Pa would be out of the question.

Well this invert of the invert is no surprise to me. I posted it was a possibility in a separate thread well before the announcement and discovery. A no brainer marketing gimmick.

Soon intentional "errors" in limited quantities may be commonplace, and I think this is actually a great thing to spur media coverage and collecting. Kudos to the USPS on this one.

Oh yea I just bought 40 more sheets to see if I can get lucky too. Such a sheet would be great to find.

I think this can easily backfire on the USPS.

So the USPS created 100 intentional "errors" of the Inverted Jenny not being inverted out of more than 13 million stamps. The luck in actually finding one is probably more astronomical than winning the lottery.

The stamp collector who demands an example of every legitimately issued modern US stamp is likely going to have to pay big bucks on the secondary market to add this one to their collection, which may sour them on collecting modern US issues anymore if they can only look forward to more of these sort of marketing schemes for future stamp issues.

And what's to stop the USPS from reprinting more of them at their whim if collectors demand them? Will we see another 1962 fiasco of when the Dag Hammarskjold error was found and the US Post Office later printed the error intentionally so as to deflate the value of the "error" stamps that were placed on the market?

In this case, however, the USPS intentionally created the "very limited edition stamp", so it's not an unintentional error. No matter how you look at it, though, it's not a good precedent for a respected stamp-issuing agency such as the USPS to get themselves into these sort of antics.

This is the sports card hobby spilling over into the stamp collecting hobby - I like the idea. Collectors of modern cards will know exactly what I mean :)

Honestly, This is why I quit collecting sports cards. They started producing very limited such as "one of one's". When they started making things purely as collectibles, it killed the collectibility for me. I liked sports cards when there was only a few manufacturers, the printing was lousy, the paper was poor, the cards were gum stained and we actually read the statistics on the backs of the cards. That is why I always come back to 19th century stamps. They were primarily intended for postage or to show a tax was paid, etc. Later on many countries made things specific to the collector and those don't interest me in the least.

I entirely agree with wt1. It's just a money-grabbing venture as thousands of collectors will go out and spend thousands of dollars in the hope of finding the treasure.

Definitely NOT a good precedent.

Londonbus1

I share your sentiments. This is just plain silly. USPS might as well have a lottery for 'special' stamps. No, thank you. I'll probably stop collecting US stamps now as it's impossible to even get a complete collection of modern stamps with issues such as this one.