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Rare 'Jenny' stamp sells for $825,000 (AP)

December 27th, 2007 by

In this undated photo provided by Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas, a rare 24-cent stamp depicting an upside-down airplane is shown. The 1918 stamp depicts a Curtiss JN-4 'Jenny,' a World War I training aircraft that became an airmail plane. A collector from New York has purchased the rare 24-cent stamp depicting the upside-down airplane for $825,000, according to Heritage Auction Galleries. (AP Photo/Heritage Auction Galleries)AP - One of the most famously flawed stamps in U.S. history sold for $825,000 to a New York man who bought it slightly cheaper than the record price another “Inverted Jenny” copy fetched at auction last month.

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