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THE INVERTED JENNY LOCKET
Last week I asked about the whereabouts of the locket containing an "Inverted Jenny" stamp given by Col. E.H.R. Green to his wife Mabel. -Editor Julia Casey writes: "The Inverted Jenny Locket was sold by Stack's in 2015 - to an anonymous coin collector! " Wow, nice find! Interesting story that has a connection to a famous Jenny theft. Here's an excerpt from the lot description. -Editor
Mabel Green's Gift from Colonel Edward H. R. Green to his wife United States Air Post 1918 24c Carmine Red and Blue, Center Inverted (C3a), position 9, never hinged, straight edge at top, short corner perforation at upper left, trivial corner creases at bottom left and right, encased back-to-back with never hinged example of the normal stamp (C3) in gold-rimmed glass sided locket with clasp, one side with small chip at bottom. When Mabel Green died in Miami at age 79 in April 1950 she bequeathed the locket to her longtime companion Dorothy Nicholson. Dorothy moved to Long Island, later marrying a New York lawyer named Lester Stickles, the locket remained in a safety deposit box in New York. As the years passed collectors began recording all the known positions from the sheet from the numbers Eugene Klein had penciled on the backs of the stamps in 1918. Only one stamp from the top row eluded the researchers; position 9. In an interesting twist position 18 from the Miller collection housed at the New Public Library was stolen in 1977 along with 53 other rare stamps. Recovered in the early 1980's its perforations had been removed at top and its number on the reverse had been altered from 18 to the missing number 9. Finally on December 26th 1984, George Amick, author of The Inverted Jenny, Money, Mystery, Mania (1986) was permitted to photograph the locket for the first time. By comparison to the adjoining stamps it was confirmed as the missing position.
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Julia adds: "During my search for information, I came across a 2015 post on a stamp forum. This is about another of Green's Inverted Jenny stamps that Mabel played a part in its history. I haven't found any more details about this other one!" This is the one she used for postage, and is cancelled. -Editor Two of the most fabled inverted Jenny stamps (my opinion) but not known by many collectors are the inverted Jenny locket and the used inverted Jenny. Both are associated with Colonel Green's wife, Mabel. The later stamp, she took from his desk to mail a letter to him, not realizing its value. Colonel Green went into shock when he received the letter and noticed the stamp, but took it in stride. That is NOT the one being sold.
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