Exhibitions

Gems of American Philately

September 22, 2013 – Permanent
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National Postal Museum
2 Massachusetts Ave., NE
Washington, DC

Level 2, William H. Gross Gallery

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Examine 13 of the rarest and most highly valued gems in the world of philately, including the most famous US stamp of all, the 1918 Inverted Jenny. A video explains why the Inverted Jenny and other stamps are philatelic gems. Each of these items tells a story about a significant milestone in US history—from a surviving stamp proof of the 1765 Stamp Act stamp that so infuriated the American colonists to a lunar mail cover postmarked on the Moon by astronaut Dave Scott in 1971.