Just saw in todays paper that an upside down Jenny stolen at a stamp show 60 years ago has re surfaced. A man in his 20's said his Grandfather acquired it. Should be interesting !
Ethel McCoy (the legal owner of the block of 4 when it was stolen from the frame exhibit at the 1955 APS Convention) assigned the rights to the remaining unrecovered stamps to APRL (American Philatelic Research Library) in 1979.
After that, position 65 was recovered in 1982, and now position 76 has been recovered.
Of the original block of 4 that was stolen and subsequently broken up into singles, only position 66 remains missing. Position 75 was recovered in Chicago in 1958.
Therefore, after all the legal paperwork is finished, the recently recovered position 76 will officially belong to APRL.
There is a story in the "Jenny!" book about a collector who passed and they could not find his copy of the inverted Jenny. His family now believes that he stashed it in the pages of a book. All his books were sold off or donated, so someday, someone might be in for a big surprise while reading a good book.
