tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post7541207272739680218..comments2024-03-28T15:05:10.372-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Famous AmericanNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-2320003173640511472020-02-11T19:22:59.700-06:002020-02-11T19:22:59.700-06:00My mistake, Grizz, thanks for the correction. In m...My mistake, Grizz, thanks for the correction. In my defense, I may have assumed a dead nazi sympathizer because a live one is so omnipresent.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613528527379198505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-78786917895781269652020-02-11T18:50:20.552-06:002020-02-11T18:50:20.552-06:00Neil, I spent a whole lot of time with my stamp co...Neil, I spent a whole lot of time with my stamp collection too when I was a kid, but it wasn't wasted. I learned about history, geography, politics, etc. through stamps. I had stamps from countries that don't exist anymore, from former French/British/Dutch colonies that became independent nations, and a lot of US stamps with famous people to learn about (like Walt Whitman). Not a waste of time at all.JeffinOhio55https://www.blogger.com/profile/16112008304880020758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-36123138271903716082020-02-11T17:39:22.912-06:002020-02-11T17:39:22.912-06:00I think Grizz is responding to JP’s post. I think Grizz is responding to JP’s post. Coeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06130250489695215525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-13309395620283628682020-02-11T16:24:43.498-06:002020-02-11T16:24:43.498-06:00As soon as the Orange One privatizes the Postal Se...As soon as the Orange One privatizes the Postal Service, ALL the stamps will bear his image.Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02265121591041114100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-88492949082827953392020-02-11T11:56:08.702-06:002020-02-11T11:56:08.702-06:00Did you mean the Inverted Jenny? It's also kno...Did you mean the Inverted Jenny? It's also known as an Upside Down Jenny, or Jenny Invert) According to Wikipedia, it's a 24-cent United States postage stamp first issued on May 10, 1918, in which the image of the Curtiss JN-4 airplane in the center of the design is printed upside-down. This error has made it one of the most prized of all stamps. <br /><br />Wikipedia also state that a single Inverted Jenny was sold at auction in 2007 for just under a million dollars. In 2016, a Jenny invert in "superb" condition sold at auction for $1.3 million. Two years later, another Inverted Jenny stamp sold for just under $1.6 million. <br /><br />I'm not much a stamp collector, so I don't know if there were ever any inverted Spirtit of St. Louis stamps from 1927. I did own a 1907 Jamestown Tricentennial stamp that I found on a mailing tube in an old steamer trunk, but then my coin and stamp collections disappeared. Probably stolen by a houseguest's teen-ager. Sorry, kid, but they weren't really worth all that much. Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-10062517211682225342020-02-11T10:13:28.973-06:002020-02-11T10:13:28.973-06:00There is an exception to the no-living-person-on-s...There is an exception to the no-living-person-on-stamps rule, although it depends on a somewhat tendentious interpretation. From iwojima.com:<br /><br /><i>When the public first demanded a stamp commemorating the [Iwo Jima] Flag Raising picture, the US Post Office initially rejected the idea out of hand. “No living person(s) can appear on a US stamp,” they replied. But the public demand was so great that Congress pushed for the stamp. It was issued just five months after the Flag-Raising.</i>Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-7405388206291995382020-02-11T08:30:51.321-06:002020-02-11T08:30:51.321-06:00I once made a water treatment sale to an elderly F...I once made a water treatment sale to an elderly Floridian stamp collector. He had thousands of cards like the one pictured here, drawer after drawer stuffed full, overflowing into a second room and beyond. I saw the ones he held most dear and I had no appreciation for his passion. If he had an inverted Spirit of St. Louis, I would have remembered that. I do remember that he was sweet man, meeting him more valuable than my $300 commission.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613528527379198505noreply@blogger.com