Jenny Stamp is a Fake
I had a feeling that it was going to be a fake, and reader Bazl agreed so as well. It is indeed a fake.
From the AP here:
A stamp thought to be rare and valuable that was used to mail an absentee ballot now appears to be a fake, an expert said Tuesday.
The stamp thought to be the famous Inverted Jenny stamp was discovered as Broward County officials reviewed absentee ballots for the Nov. 7 elections. An official noticed the stamp was from 1936 and had an upside-down World War I-era airplane the hallmark of an Inverted Jenny.
Broward elections officials on Monday showed the stamp to reporters and photographers before putting it back into a safe deposit box, said Mary Cooney, the elections office spokeswoman. Images were sent to stamp experts.
Peter Mastrangelo, director of the American Philatelic Society, said after reviewing a digital photo that the stamp appeared to be counterfeit.
This brings up a lot of new questions. First, isn’t using counterfeit stamps against the law? Second, what was the intent of sending such a stamp to the election board?
Aha!
I’d have to start the investigation with the guy who discovered it in the first place. There’s no way that this one envelope, in a sea of envelopes, happened to catch his eye and he happened to know it was a special stamp.
Bazl, I think you are right. Any good investigator would have to start there. And since we are dealing with mail fraud, we are talking about the Postmaster General. These guys are excellent at handling investigations.