Missing Inverted Jenny Found!

One of the Inverted Jenny stamps that was previously recovered.
One of the previously recovered Jenny Invert stamps.

A mystery over 60 years in the making 

In 1955, a block of four inverted Jenny stamps was stolen from a Virginia stamp show. By the 1980s, two had been recovered, but the mystery still intrigued collectors.

In 2014, Mystic’s President Don Sundman offered a $100,000 reward for the remaining two missing stamps to be returned. One has recently been discovered in a collection from Ireland and turned over to the American Philatelic Research Library.

Don Sundman presenting reward check to the man who found the Inverted Jenny, Keelin O’Neil.
Don Sundman presenting $50,000 reward check to the man who found the Inverted Jenny, Keelin O’Neil.
Mystic President Don Sundman with the recovered Jenny Invert.
Mystic President Don Sundman with the recovered Jenny Invert at the World Stamp Show.


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