1869 90c Lincoln, carmine and black - Mystic Stamp Company
网页The 90¢ Lincoln is the only stamp of the series that didn’t result in inverts. Only one is known on a cover – the legendary “Ice House” cover sent from Boston to Calcutta. The cover was stolen from a collector in 1967 and its whereabouts were unknown until 2006 when an unsuspecting elderly couple brought it to a Chicago-area stamp dealer.
网页The 15¢ Invert with original gum (Siegel Sale 1052, lot 1) is one of the earliest discoveries. The story told is that the stamp was purchased in 1869 by Paul Lichtenstein, father of the more famous stamp collector, Alfred F. Lichtenstein, and grandfather of Louise Boyd Dale-Lichtenstein. At the time, Paul
CIA Invert revisited: How did it occur? - Linns Stamp News
网页2020年2月26日 · The 1979 $1 Rush Lamp and Candle Holder stamp with intaglio brown printing inverted (Scott 1610c), nicknamed the CIA Invert, is shown on the left, with a normal example of this $1 definitive on the right.
1869 Issue – Research on the Inverts | New York Chapter of the U.S ...
网页The historical intricacies and the unique standing of the 1869 inverted center stamps in both American and global philately provide a captivating chapter in the story of postal errors.
网页in rare inverts. Instead of an inverted center, the stamp actually has an inverted frame, since the center design was printed first. The 30¢ Shield and Eagle with inverted flags is the rarest of the 1869 inverts. The least obvious of the three, it was the last to be discovered.
1869 Pictorial Issue - Wikipedia
网页The 1869 Pictorial Issue is a series of definitive United States postage stamps released during the first weeks of the Grant administration. Ten types of stamp in denominations between one cent and ninety cents were initially offered in the series, with eight of these introduced on March 19 and 20, 1869 and the two greatest values being ...
Don cracks the case of the Famous CIA Invert Stamp…
网页The Bureau of Printing and Engraving investigated internally and found no collusion on the part of its employees with the people who purchased the inverted stamps. The CIA donated the recovered inverts to the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., where it joined an invert earlier donated by Don Sundman.
Pictorial Issues (1869-1870) - National Postal Museum
网页With a brown frame and blue center vignette, the 15-cent Landing of Columbus was the first bi-color stamp issued by the United States. Type II was one of the first stamps to have an inverted image. Though it is described as having an inverted vignette, it is the frame that is inverted because it was printed last.
CIA Inverts | Mystic Stamp Discovery Center
网页U.S. #1610. In 1985, news of a newly discovered U.S. invert stamp rocked the philatelic world. It was the first major inverted stamp in 66 years and said to be rarer than the coveted Jenny inverts. But the details were cloaked in secrecy, hidden in a maze of deception that took two years to unravel. U.S. #1610C Invert.
30¢ 1869 pictorial invert eclipses $300,000 at ... - Linns Stamp News
网页2016年6月2日 · The top stamp was an unused example of the 30¢ Shield, Eagle and Flags with flags inverted from the 1869 pictorial series (Scott 121b). Connect with Linn’s Stamp News: Sign up for our newsletter