1918 Curtiss Jenny airmail stamps

Curtiss Jenny Airmail Stamps
Type	Airmail stamp
Country of issue	United States
Country of production	United States
Designer	Clair Aubrey Huston
Engraver	Edward Weeks (frame), Marcus W. Baldwin (vignette)
Printer	Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Dimensions	2.54 cm X 2.54 cm
Perforation	11
Commemorates	U.S. Army's Curtiss airplane
Depicts	U.S. Army's Curtiss airplane
Notability	first U.S. airmail stamp, world's first definitive airmail stamp, first bicolored airmail stamp, first airmail stamp printed with an error, first airmail stamp produced for a regular service
Face value	6¢, 16¢, 24¢

The 1918 Curtiss Jenny Air Mail Stamps were a set of three Airmail postage stamps issued by the United States in 1918.^[1] The 24¢ variety was the first of the stamps to be issued, and was in fact, America's first Airmail stamp. (The world's first airmail stamp was issued by Italy in 1917^[2]). The 16¢ and 6¢ varieties were issued later in the year to reflect reductions in the postage rate. It features the image of the Curtiss JN-4 airplane.

The order of the Scott Catalog numbers^[3] for these stamps (C1 through C3) is the inverse of the order of release dates for the stamps.

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Individual stamp designs

Design	Scott Catalog Numbers	Date of Issue
6¢ Curtiss Jenny	C1	Dec. 10, 1918
16¢ Curtiss Jenny	C2	July 11, 1918
24¢ Curtiss Jenny	C3	May 13, 1918

Inverted Jenny error

A single sheet of 100 of the two-color 24¢ was printed with the center design inverted, thus creating the Inverted Jenny.^[5]

References

^ Kirker, Joe. "24c Curtiss Jenny single". Smithsonian National Postal Museum. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
^ Miller, Rick. "Landmarks of airmail history: who's on first?". Linn's Stamp News. Amos Media Company. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
^ Bigalke, Jay (April 1, 2020). 2021 Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue - Volume 1 (US & A-B) (177th ed.). Scott Publishing. ISBN 0894875825.
^ "POSITION 87 ⇒ BLOCK 87-88/97-98".
^ "Production of the Inverted Jenny". InvertedJenny.com. Retrieved 11 March 2021.

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