Here at news from me, we wander from topic to topic. We started talking about the new Dr. Seuss postage stamp and now I'm printing the following from my pal, Rick Scheckman…
Another non-President who did not wait ten years to be on a postage stamp was Dag Hammarskjold. Dag was at the time of his 1961 death in a plane crash in the Congo, Secretary General of the United Nations. Very shortly after the crash, in 1962, The United States issued a stamp honoring Hammarskjold, however one sheet went in backwards for the second color resulting in a rare sheet of inverted stamps. Stamp collector Leonard Sherman purchased the sheet for $2 at the post office. When he announced the find, the government decided to print millions of the stamp error.
I remember this. Below, we have the stamps in question. The one at top is the way the stamp looked when printed correctly. The one below is the "error" stamp with the yellow plate inverted…
But I just dug up a copy of the most memorable version, which is the one drawn by Al Jaffee for MAD Magazine…
