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Missing leg A camel with only three legs, or seven legs for two camels, it is up to you to choose… |
FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA 1946 | |
Hand with six fingers ! It is well known that President Roosevelt was a philatelist, but have you ever heard that he had 6 fingers at his left hand ? |
MONACO 1947 | |
Missing finger. Witch with only four fingers at both hands. |
GERMANY 1951 | |
Missing leg. Missing leg : only seven legs for two horses. |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1946 | |
Missing finger. The player with a white and red shirt misses a finger at his right hand |
GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 1961 | |
Female christmas child. Cover of an airmail letter. Take a discreet look at the baby, it is a GIRL ! |
UNITED KINGDOM | |
Inverted and corrected ears. After this stamp has been issued, it was discovered that the poor man had inverted ears. Fortunately for him, the stamp has been corrected. |
AUSTRIA 1934 | |
Impossible way of moving A dog never moves his left or rights legs at the same time, but crossed. |
UNITED KINGDOM | |
Big steps, small traces Despite their big steps, these strange little men leave small traces in the snow. |
GREENLAND 1962 | |
Two identical left shoes. Ask this man to uncross his legs, you will see that he is wearing two identical left shoes. |
GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 1964 | |
Strange acting chinese. This dancing elderly Chinese puts his right arm and right leg forward at the same time. |
CHINA 1987 | |
Broken little finger Impossible way to spread fingers, even for a well trained sportsman |
MONACO 1952 | |
Two missing legs. All flying insects, including bees and wasps, have 6 legs. |
DENMARK 1987 | |
Fast growing beard ! A clean shaven Columbus in sight of land. But a while later, after landing, wearing a magnificent full beard. |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1893 | |
Strange proportions The horse is much too big compared to the size of its horseman (or the man is much too small compared to the horse). |
ROMANIA 1964 | |
Too much fingers The fame of this billiard player was partly due to the fact that he had lost one finger at his right hand. |
AUSTRALIA 1981 | |
Big head Comparing to the size of the baby, the head of the mother is far too big. |
FRANCE 1939 | |
Galloping horse A galloping horse never moves its legs like this ! |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1960 | |
Strange runners One of the runners puts her 2 arms in front of her, another one holds her 2 arms behind her back. |
GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 1970 | |
Giant camel Compared to the rider, this camel would at least be 20 meter long ! |
AUSTRALIA | |
Missing legs Only six, maybe seven, but certainly not eight legs for those two horses. |
BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA 1918 | |
Strange position Impossible why to shoot the bowl without falling, with the right foot in front instead of the left one. |
BRITISH GUYANA 1931 | |
Missing finger. Only four fingers at the right hand |
CANADA 1947 | |
Impossible position The Olympic rings are linked into a chain : thus the right hand of the athlete in the middle should be in front of the yellow ring, and the left hand of the right athlete should be in front of the green ring. |
CHINA 1984 | |
Impossible age Gerontolists generally agree that there have never been authenticated cases of human beings reaching such advanced ages. |
COLOMBIA 1956 | |
Missing front leg This horse clearly has got three hind legs, and only one in front ! |
CHINA 1990 | |
Strange tail On the cover and on the stamps of this booklet, the rabbit has its tail pointing to the ground. In fact, rabbits have their tail pointing upwards, even in China ! |
CHINA 1987 | |
Strange handshake An unatural and even impossible way to shake hands |
CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1945 | |
Missing toe Only 4 toes at the right foot. |
FRANCE 1946 | |
Wrong blood circulation Incorrect presentation of the human blood circulation : there should be one down and one return path, both splitting somewhere in the middle of the body. |
HUNGARY 1973 | |
Two left hands Two left hands, and and impossible way to hold the rifle with the left arm. |
GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 1967 | |
Missing wing. From this place, the second wing of the lion should have been visible. |
ITALY 1952 | |
Inverted feet. Diver with inverted feet. |
JAPAN 1985 | |
Wrong hight. President Kennedy was a lot taller than the Mexican President Mateos. |
MEXICO 1964 | |
Female angel. Angels are supposed to be sexless, but this Mexican angel obviously is equipped with a nice breast. |
MEXICO 1958 | |
Wrong front flippers. The seal has been criticised because de front flippers were shown clawed. The stamp was redrwn some years later. |
NEWFOUNDLAND 1866 | |
Missing legs Crabs have 8 legs, two are missing on the Mauritanian stamp. |
MAURITANIA | |
Geant fish. Geant fish, too heavy for one man, with a very strange tail. |
POLAND 1947 | |
Hair miracle General Artigas was almost bald when featured on a stamp in 1883. In 1910 however, he looked much younger with his nice black hair |
URUGUAY 1883 | |
Missing finger Only four fingers at the right hand. The design was corrected. |
URUGUAY 1900 | |
Strange grip Impossible use of such an heavy hammer |
VENEZUELA 1964 | |
Impossible position Impossible position of the right arm during a jump. And where is that other arm ? |
CHAD 1964 | |
Diffferent length. The right thigh of the kneeling man is much shorter than the left. |
SAN MARINO 1924 | |
Huge baby The baby is much too big comparing to the nurse, and much too heavy to be hold above her. |
MONACO 1948 | |
Beardless It is historically proven that Charlemagne was beardless. |
FRANCE 1966 | |
Without gravity The breasts of this lady seem not to be affected by the gravity. |
ZAMBIA 1981 | |
Out of proportion The legs of this runner are really out of proportion compared to his body |
KAMPUCHEA 1984 | |
Not well trained Unrealistic position for a gymnast in very bad physical condition. |
BRAZIL 1957 | |
One too much Five fingers with one hidden thumb ? Not the exact number for a normal hand. |
CHINA 1998 | |
Additional legs This crab has been featured with at least one additional pair of legs. |
ALBANIA 1968 | |
Non symetric The cat right whiskers are shorter than the left ones. |
AUSTRALIA 1971 | |
Pretty woman The eyes of this local woman seemed a little bit too glazy, so the designer was asked to improve his work before a second issue. |
DOMINICA 1963 | |
Missing claws In this position, the claws of this Gyrfalcon should have been visible. |
SWEDEN 1981 | |
Not in line One of the players needs urgent surgery as his body is not in line with his legs. |
IVORY COAST 1990 | |
Missing leg A camel with a missing frontleg. |
CAMEROON 1946 | |
Too big The size of the beaver's skins that are drying is too big comparing to the man's length. |
CANADA 1950 | |
Wrong ears The elephant shown to illustrate the Ceylon Nature Conservation Week is not an Asian one, but an African elephant with large floppy ears. |
CEYLON | |
Wrong leg The hoof of the horse is split, this is an horse with legs of an ox. |
CHINA 1985 | |
Missing clauws The tiger on the stamp has only 2 claws at each leg. In fact the fore leg of a tiger has five claws, the hind leg four. |
CHINA 1987 | |
Strange tail Hyena with a very strong tail |
CUBA 1964 | |
Wrong color The Bukkfinch has a black beak, not white as on the stamp |
CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1959 | |
Missing leg Only seven legs for two camels. |
FRENCH OCEANIA 1946 | |
Not an African one The elephant has small rounded ears, more like an Asian than an African elephant, and has misplaced tusks. |
GAMBIA 1938 | |
Shaking hands Strange way to shake hands, with one left and one right hand. |
GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 1953 | |
Geese with ears This well known folk song starts with : Fox, you have stolen a geese. There is however nothing in the original text indicating that the geese should be provided with long ears. |
GERMANY 1958 | |
Not quite correct The young foal's hide has the same light colour as her mare - when it should in fact still have its first dark hide. |
GERMANY 1940 | |
Not crossed Horselegs touch the ground crossed, and not two legs from the same side at the same time. |
GERMANY 1969 | |
Wrong gender The Neanderthaler skull discovered in Gibraltar in 1848 turned out to be the skull of a women. |
GIBRALTAR 1973 | |
Bas design The design of one of the orders of chevalry worn by George V was so bad that instead of an elephant, it mas more like a pig. This was corrected afterwards. |
INDIA 1911 | |
Small head The head is much too small comparing to the size of the body. |
SWITZERLAND 1932 | |
Strange Head is too small comparing to the body. And a strange competition, without boat and competing with a swan. |
YUGOSLAVIA 1956 | |
Not Africans Those elephants are very small eared with a high forehead, thus are not African elephants but Asian ones. |
NORTHERN RHODESIA 1925 | |
Missing leg Only eleven legs for three horses. |
SWEDEN 1936 | |
Wrong hairdress The Olympic jumper Krzesinska Dunska was represented without her very characteristic poneytail. |
POLAND 1956 | |
Too big The rower is much too big for the boat. |
POLAND 1955 | |
Missing leg Only seven legs for two camels. |
SAINT PIERRE AND MIQUELON 1946 | |
Wrong position The elephant seal is wrongly shown with its flippers tucked forward underneath, an anatomical impossibility. |
TRISTAN DA CUNHA 1954 | |
Made up As the female Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) does not differ from the male bird, one of those stamps has to be a 'made up'. |
YUGOSLAVIA 1985 | |
Premature commemoration Stamp issued to mark the National Recovery Act in 1933. But this Act was declared unconstitutional and thrown out by the Supreme Court in 1935. Furthermore a man with a missing leg. |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1933 | |
Flying problems This angels with only one wing will not fly easily, and the plane without rudders will not fly at all. |
CANADA | |
Wrong direction The claws of upside down sleeping bats are directed forwards, not backwards |
GERMANY 1999 | |
Wrong representation This Brachiosaurus did not live in water, and his forelegs are too small. |
Non-error ? |
SAN MARINO 1965 | |
Forearm Missing forearm |
MONGOLIA 1980 | |
Additional fin This Permit fish has got an extra fin (coming from a small triangular shadow on the photo from whoch the artist made the design). |
TURKS AND CAICOS 1955 | |
Wrong name Wrong : Francolinus Stephenson - Correct : Francolinus Stephens. The prominent leg spurs have also been omitted. |
VIET NAM 1963 | |
Wrong fish This is certainly not a Tarpon, amongst other characteristics, the Tarpon has a blunt head and only one dorsal fin. |
SAINT CHRISTOPHER 1968 | |
Missing leg Missing leg at the right side |
MALI 1966 | |
Missing leg Missing leg : only seven legs for two camels. |
MALAGASY 1946 | |
Missing leg Missing leg : only seven legs for two camels. |
FRENCH GUYANA 1946 | |
Wrong direction The foal is shown feeding from behind. The correct way to feed is shown on a British stamp and on a picture. |
SWEDEN 1946 | |
Bad circulation The blood circulation in the head and the left leg is interrupted. |
FRANCE 2001 | |
Not local Those are not French Camargue bulls (with vertical horns) but Spanish bulls with horizontal horns. |
FRANCE 1995 | |
Out of proportion Thumb is not in proportion comparing to the other fingers. |
SENEGAL 1979 | |
Name and teeth Wrong : Hyppopotamus - Correct : Hippopotamus. Furthermore, the upper teeth are missing. |
GUINEA BISSAU 1997 | |
Wrong ears The Landrace-pig has pending ears |
FRANCE 2017 | |
Too big This squirrel is far too big comparing to the branch it is climbing on. |
BULGARIA | |
Twice strange The name 'world jamboree' is at least strange, as a jamboree is already a world reunion of scouts. And such geant squarrels with a rabbit head do not exist, even in Norway. |
GRENADA 1975 | |
Strong fingers Put all the weight of the body on four stretched fingers is even for a well trained sportsdman impossible. |
BULGARIA 1964 | |
Bad food This prey is really too lean, the lion will still be hungry after his meal. |
DAHOMEY 1963 | |
Wrong tail A deer does not have aan upwards pointing tail. |
SAN MARINO 1962 | |
One too much The leaves of an marple tree are never attached by three. |
CANADA 1959 | |
Tail A deer does not have a tail. |
GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 1959 | |
Out of proportion The bird is too big comparing to the plane. |
SAINT PIERRE AND MIQUELON | |
Too small The size of this tennisball is far too small comparing to the hand. |
NETHERLANDS 2012 | |
Wrong direction An hibernating bat hangs with its claws turned backwards. |
TONGA 1992 | |
Strange animal This cow is completely out of proportions. |
UNITED KINGDOM 1999 | |
Leg problems Horse with a missing, and a broken leg. |
SWEDEN 1956 | |
Missing legs Crab with a missing pair of legs |
BRAZIL 1993 | |
Strange hand Hand with two thumbs |
ALGERIA 2012 | |
Strange position Trained oxes to pull the plow synchroneously ? |
SPAIN 1967 | |
Huge leg With such a huge leg, it should be easy to win teh match. |
HUNGARY 1985 | |
Missing finger Missing finger at the right hand |
ISRAEL 1987 | |
Missing fingers Only four fingers at each hand |
CHINA 2009 | |
Missing legs The number of elefants is not clear, but in any case, a lot of legs are missing. |
UGANDA 1991 | |
Too small The size of the head is much too small comparing to the books. |
LAO 1988 | |
Additional fingers Two men seem the have an additional finger |
ALAND 1998 | |
Missing hair The mustache of this cat is not symmetrical |
SLOVENIA 2006 | |
Missing fingers ? One of the players seems to have only 4 fingers at each hand. |
BELGIUM 1987 | |
Additional finger Six fingers at the right hand with the umbrella. |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1963 | |
Wrong aspect Centenary of the Japanese National Education : this stamp features a Western looking girl, instead of a Japanese one. |
JAPAN 1972 | |
Missing legs All flying insects, including bees and wasps, have 6 legs. The cover of this booklet shows only 4 legs. |
DENMARK 1987 | |
Legs not in balance A horse moves front and back legs at the same time. |
UNITED KINGDOM 1999 | |
Missing legs Four horses have sixteen legs. At least two are missing here. |
NEW CALEDONIA 1973 | |
Wrong cheek Marilyn Monroe had a birthmark on her right cheek, not on the left side |
SAINT TOME AND PRINCIPE 1994 | |
Missing legs Four horses, but only 13 of 14 legs ! |
EL SALVADOR 1948 | |
Fingers Missing fingers |
COLOMBIA 1970 | |
Missing legs A mosquito has six legs |
SAINT TOME AND PRINCIPE 1962 | |
Missing legs A bee has six legs |
RWANDA 1982 | |
Wrong side Thumb at the wrond side of the hand |
SPAIN 2020 | |
Too many claws The Tyrannosaurus rex has only 2 claws, not five. |
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 1988 | |
Missing legs Wasp with only 3 legs |
PHILIPPINES 1988 | |
Missing legs Not enough legs for six horses |
INDIA | |
Missing legs Only three legs! |
INDIA 1980 | |
Missing members Not only dangerous for the children, but also a missing arm and leg |
CZECH REPUBLIC 2015 |