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An aviation flop led to stamp-collecting history and made the ‘Inverted Jenny’ famous – SFGate


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An aviation flop led to stamp-collecting history and made the 'Inverted Jenny' famous
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After eluding postal authorities and hiding the stamps under his mattress, he sold them several days later for $15,000 – the equivalent of about $270,000 today. Two years ago, a single Jenny reportedly sold at auction for $1.1 million in New York. So

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