Original description of the error

Impossible to recognise the continents on this globe, they only exist in the imagination of the designer.

Comment received from visitor

AUSTRIA 1955 10 years of the UN, globe and flags. You are quite right that it is difficult to see the shapes of continents as they were placed rather differently to what we are accustomed to, but after a while I could see Greenland and North America, so I do not see the real problem here. The real problem is a wrong Soviet flag with a huge hammer and sickle placed centrally in the flag. The real Soviet flag had a small emblem placed in the upper left corner. The flag presented here is definitely wrong.

Original description of the error

Take a rest sitting on the lath, maybe convenient, but quite impossible while jumping for competition.

Comment received from visitor

SAN MARINO 1963 (and multiple other in ‘sports’ category) I’m almost sure some ‘impossible for competition’ high jumps (as well as pole jumps) you treat as errors were quite normal in the past. I googled the phrase “high jump female 1960” and many photos seem to confirm it. Strange old pictures on stamps can be real. If you can’t check the pictures for jump errors (I’m not competent to do it) maybe less critical descriptions would be better?

Original description of the error

Reindeers do not live in the Southern hemisphere, only in the North.

Comment received from visitor

FRENCH ANTARCTIC TERRITORY 1987 Maybe it is better to change from "error" to "apparent error"? Explanation: what you wrote was true before humans arrived to the Antarctic, but reindeers were successfully introduced in Kerguelen Island in 1956, and several thousand of them still live there wild. I think the stamp is about them. (They were also introduced in South Georgia, but exterminated recently, around 2014).

Original description of the error

This tour started and ended in Prague. The last stage from Pilsen back to Prague was forgotten.

Comment received from visitor

GDR (DDR) 1957 The International Peace Race. In 1957 this tour started in Prague and ended in Warsaw, please consult: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Race so no stage is missing on the map. But there is another error here: while Berlin is represented by the Town Hall and Prague by Charles Bridge and they are easy to recognise, Warsaw seems to be represented by the Palace of Culture and Science, which is absolutely not resembling the real palace. Actually I am surprised that in communist Germany they did not know how the real building looked liked, or perhaps there was too little space in the stamp, so they flattened it a bit. Please, compare it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Culture_and_Science. The real palace is very tall, this one looks not tall, but stout and surrounded by strange buildings which in reality do not exist.

Original description of the error

Strange country name on this stamp from Norway: NOREG instead of NORGE.

Comment received from visitor

NOREG is the countryname of Norway in the second language of this country. Can indeed be very confusing for foreigners who are not aware of it !

Original description of the error

Rusland and France both issued a stamp in 1975 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Russian-French relations., but the Russian stamp put the anniversary wrongly in 1974.

Comment received from visitor

RUSSIA 1975 “Wrong year” “Rusland (??) and France both issued a stamp in 1975 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Russian-French relations., but the Russian stamp put the anniversary wrongly in 1974.” Maybe it is the French stamp with error? Russian Wikipedia is detailed about it and states the relationship was established on 28 October 1924. Yes, maybe the stamp was issued a little bit late, but there is no error ON the stamp. On the other hand, when two stamps give different dates, both are good for your collection.

Original description of the error

This Brachiosaurus did not live in water, and his forelegs are too small.

Comment received from visitor

SAN MARINO 1965 “Wrong representation” (dino) Yes, nowadays we think so. But in the 1960’s the idea that such a big animal was too heavy to live on land still prevailed in science (easy to check). Yes, now we think its forelegs were longer. But we cannot blame the designer that he/she was unaware about later development of paleontology. Maybe it would be fair to start the sentence with “Now we know that Brachiosaurus…”?

Original description of the error

At the end of the second World War Poland became a Republic. From then the crown above the eagle was removed from the coat of arms.

Comment received from visitor

USA 1966 crown: There is an error in your description: Poland did not become a republic at the end of the Second World War, but at the end of the First WW in 1918. There is no design error here, only the question of interpretation. The stamp shows the correct arms of Poland until 1945 and from 1989 until today. When the communists occupied Poland in 1944/45 they removed the crown from the head of the Polish White Eagle and that was the only time in history when the Polish Eagle was crownless. So in 1966 this type of eagle was not the official arms of communist Poland but the crownless eagle was rejected by the Polish people and was certainly not accepted by millions of Poles living in the USA. This stamps was issued thanks to Poles living in the USA to celebrate the Millennium of Christianity in Poland, which the communists refuse to celebrate. Communist state in Poland was always very hostile to Christians, so placing a cross and a communist eagle (crownless eagle) would be unthinkable to most Poles and rather offensive. The White Eagle in the stamp represents the Catholic Poland, not the communist one, so it could not be crownless. Such eagle was chosen with purpose and it was not a mistake, as Christian and communist symbols do not go well in a stamps celebrating the Millennium of Christianity in Poland.

Original description of the error

One stick is missing, and in any case it is much too long to be really helpful /Not an error

Comment received from visitor

The "missing stic" with woman with one long pole is strange for us, but it is not an error. It was exactly so in the past, and two sticks would be an anachronism.