NEW YORK (AP) – A rare postage stamp stolen in 1955 has been returned to its rightful owner in New York City.
But the mystery surrounding the so-called Inverted Jenny remains: Who stole it and three other such stamps at a convention in Virginia?
On Thursday at the World Stamp Show, a man from Northern Ireland who inherited one of the stolen stamps from his grandfather watched as it was handed to officials of the Bellefonte, Pennsylvania-based American Philatelic Research Library.
A total of 100 Inverted Jenny stamps were printed in 1918, erroneously depicting an airplane printed upside-down.
Of the four stolen in 1955, three have now been recovered.
The stamp transferred Thursday surfaced at a New York auction house in April.
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This story has been corrected to show the American Philatelic Research Library is based in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, not in Philadelphia.