Philatelic Musings
In my sudden interest in philatelic, I wanted to find something fun for PPGG. Guess what the result is!
In philately, an invert error occurs when part of a postage stamp is printed upside-down! The Inverted Swan, a 4-pence blue postage issued in 1855 by Western Australia, is the world’s first invert error! I didn’t find any picture, but I guess this is the story behind these coins.
Among other famous inverts:
The inverted Jenny, USA, 1918
CIA invert, USA 1975-81, a CIA employee had bought one sheet of invert stamps
The Nixon Invert, USA, 1995
Forever Under Construction 
Interesting finds, Homie. I laughed at the Nixon inversion. Do you suppose it was a postal printer’s practical joke? Same with the CIA one. What is astounding are the amounts they go for on the philatelic market.
Nixon was more than “inverted”! It seems printing stamps is like printing money: no one jokes with it…
now if the Cirque du Soleil was in charge…. 🙂
and yes, some ‘mistakes’- never mines, can be really lucrative.
😆 Some would say perverted, not inverted.
I agree, if Cirque du Soleil was in charge, things would be fun. And … we’d be allowed to swing from chandelier to chandelier, create mischief and dress up like clowns (wait, sounds like my weekend ..) 🙂