Inverted Jenny 2013 Error?

Searched the USPS web site .... Has any one found the last day of issue date for this souvenir sheet ?

Also point of interest ... I spoke to my local postal clerk in the Easton ,Connecticut post office she claims they not selling . ( at least at her branch ) . She has been using them on priority mail packages and making up the difference with meter mail.

The USPS wouldn't announce such a thing until they are ready to take them off the market. They typically give collectors 30 days or so in which to purchase stamps slated for withdrawal from sale, which is usually advertised in the USA Philatelic publication.

For example, the last USA Philatelic has announced the following stamps will be withdrawn from sale as of 12/31/2013: O. Henry, Celebrate Scouting, Indy 500, American Scientists, Earthscapes and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Since all of those stamps were issued in 2011 or 2012, they were on sale for about 12-18 months before withdrawal.

Usually they are taken off sale at the end of as quarter, and we typically get more than 30 days notice, but the key point is. it will likely be many months before these are pulled from sale (assuming they don't leave them on sale long enough to sell out).

Thanks for the info. I was hoping they would be on sale for a while. Who know what other varieties might show up. A missing pilot would be cool!

I stand by my quote as being accurate. My major concern is getting the missing FDC.
Tom

I don't know if it is just uninformed buyers or if the red wing tip w/ bleeding corner varieties are really worth $30 a sheet but they seem to be bringing that much on a constant basis. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sac...Sold=1&rt=nc

I would go along with what you said and just assume they are getting a very strong sales pitch.
Tom

As long as we're on the subject, did anyone read this 12/17/2013 USPS Blog about the "First American" to purchase the "Unvert" (right side up) Jenny Reprint? Sounds like there's still quite a few more to be uncovered.

http://uspsstamps.com/blog/2013/2701

They do exist but that still leaves 98 sheets or perhaps some have been used as postage by a consumer.
Tom

It would be awesome to find an unvert that is used!

I wonder how much that guy paid for the Unvert in the USPS blog link wt1 posted?

In the article, it states that back in 1918 when the famous Jenny stamps were first sold the clerk had never seen an airplane. I can't imagine what could be on a stamp today that most people have not seen yet and could accidently be printed wrong but it would be cool if they did something like that again on accident.

Kris

If you go to First Day Cover and look at the missing Kansas City threadd you'll see a picture of the original 24c with the new stamp on a FDC
Tom

That is a really cool cover you got! I am unfamiliar with the Lindbergh stamp but I will look it up. Does it have a scott #? Do you buy those covers from the post office and then send it through the mail to yourself?

Kris,
The one I posted a picture of is the C3 with the new release. The C10 is the Lindbergh flight in 1926 and that was lost by the post office. And while I didn't do the cachet (it's artcraft) I mail them in myself. You can buy the envelopes from Washington Press or send in blank envelopes with the stamp in a self addressed with postage.
Tom

Here's an interesting summary posted on 01/02/2014 by the USPS on the "finds" of the right-side-up Jenny Reprint Souvenir Sheet.

https://liteblue.usps.gov/news/link...news03s2.htm

To summarize:

One was found by a Canadian collector who ordered it through the USPS ebay link;
One was purchased by a Chicago coin collector from a postal customer in Georgia;
One was purchased by Art Van Riper at the Waverly, NY post office; and
One was purchased by Fred Everett of Benicia, CA.

Four (4) documented finds to date, with 96 to go. As stated previously, though, this list is only covering those "reported finds". There very well could be others that have been found with the buyers choosing not to announce their "finds" to either the USPS or the public-at-large.

Glad that you can keep us up to date on the purchases. I saw an ad in my latest APS magazine that a dealer was now offering $25,000.
Tom