A rare "Inverted Jenny" stamp, the 1918 24-cent U.S. stamp featuring an airplane mistakenly printed upside-down, stolen 61 years ago, is shown in this FBI image released on June 2, 2016. Courtesy FBI/Handout via REUTERS
A rare “Inverted Jenny” stamp, the 1918 24-cent U.S. stamp featuring an airplane mistakenly printed upside-down, stolen 61 years ago, is shown in this FBI image released on June 2, 2016. Courtesy FBI/Handout via REUTERS

 

New York – An “inverted Jenny” stamp stolen in 1955 is finally being returned to its rightful owner.

The 1918 stamp, which features an airplane printed upside-down, will officially be handed over to the Philadelphia-based American Philatelic Research Library during the World Stamp Show in Manhattan on Thursday.

Considered America’s most famous stamp, it surfaced at a New York auction house in April. The auctioneer, Spink USA, says it was submitted by a man who had inherited it.

It was one of four Jennys taken from a 1955 stamp convention. Two others were recovered in the 1980s and ‘70s.

The 24-cent stamps fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars today.

A spokesman for the stamp show says the unidentified man who inherited the Jenny will receive a reward offered by a stamp dealer

American Philatelic Society executive director Scott D. English holds an "Inverted Jenny," a 1918 stamp stolen in 1955, that is finally being returned to its rightful owner, featuring an airplane printed upside-down, after it was officially handed over during the World Stamp Show, Thursday, June 2, 2016, at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
American Philatelic Society executive director Scott D. English holds an “Inverted Jenny,” a 1918 stamp stolen in 1955, that is finally being returned to its rightful owner, featuring an airplane printed upside-down, after it was officially handed over during the World Stamp Show, Thursday, June 2, 2016, at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

 

As reported by Vos Iz Neias