Robey returned to his office and told a friend. Needless to say, I left that office in a hurry with my sheet of inverts tucked safely under my arm.” Without any comment, he left the window and ran for a telephone. “I handed them back to the clerk,” Robey said in a 1938 article, “and then showed him the sheet that I had purchased and drew his attention to the fact that the airplane was upside down.
Without acknowledging what he had just received, Robey asked for three more sheets, but all were printed correctly. The entire sheet of two-color stamps with an airplane in the center had the engraving of the airplane upside down! Robey took one look as the clerk slid the sheet toward him, and, as he later recalled, his “heart stood still.” For a stamp collector, he was experiencing the thrill of a lifetime.
#US AIRMAIL 13 CENT STAMP FULL#
Robey, a stock brokerage clerk and an ardent stamp collector, went to the window of a post office in downtown Washington, D.C., near his office and was issued a full sheet of 100 of the new stamps, for which he had just withdrawn money from his savings account. They would be available for use in connection with the first and subsequent airmail flights. Post Office press release stating that special 24-cent airmail postage stamps would be issued in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 1918, and the next day in Philadelphia and New York City. The story begins with a hurriedly issued U.S. Philatelists refer to them as “the 24-Cent Airmail Inverted Center of 1918.”
It concerns a single sheet of 100 of the first airmail stamps. Boyle did not receive any notable attention in the press, a bigger story broke in connection with the first day of the airmail that still arouses interest from stamp collectors and writers. The Case of the Inverted Airmail Stamp CloseĪlthough the difficulties experienced by Lieutenant George L.
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