SAINT-CLANS instead of SAINT-CLOUD

The Interpol headquarters are located in Saint-Cloud near Paris, not in Saint-Clans.

EISENBACH instead of EISENACH.

It could have been a nice story : J.S. BACH born in EISENBACH ! In fact the composer J.S. BACH was born in EISENACH.

Wrong building

Instead of the local school, the teacher's house was pictured on this stamp. So they issued a new one, with a corrected mention.

Wrong letter

Instead of COLUMBUS square, stamps were issued with COLOMBUS square. The error was corrected when new stamps of this series were issued.

Wrong location name

PHILADELPIA instead of PHILADELPHIA

Wrong country name

Wrong overprint BABRUDA was corrected into BARBUDA

Wrong country name

Wrong overprint : LSEOTHO instead of LESOTHO

Wrong location name

Wrong and correct name on the same stamp. Wrong : Kimerlite - Correct : Kimberlite

Wrong postal code

Stamp urging to use correct postal codes. The cover shows B C N, but there is no such code in Mexico. Only B C S for Baja California Sur, and B C for Baja California.

Wrong inscriptions

The inscriptions on the 5 grani stamp and the 1 scudo stamp have been mixed up : the 5 grani stamp shows the St Peter Fort at Bodrum (Turkey), the 1 scudo stamp the St Luciano Fort of Malta.

Colour shift

Due to a colour shift, België became Belgïe.

Wrong name

NIEDZIGA was corrected in NIEDZICA

Wrong name

NAMBIA of course is not correct, it should have been NAMIBIA

Missing letter

An S is missing in MISSISSIPI, on the seal in the middle of this stamp. The designer of the stamp had no other choice than to copy carefully this error.

At least three errors

Right below : SIDNEY instead of SYDNEY - Above : VAN DIEMAN instead of VAN DIEMEN - Right below : the opera building and the bridge are reversed in the stamp

Wrong name

SOMLYÓ was corrected afterwards into SOMLÓ

Wrong name

JESSLETON was corrected afterwards into JESSELTON

Missing letter

All the 5 stamps of this sheet mention COOK ISLANS instead of COOK ISLANDS

Wrong name

Wrong : CZECHESLOVAKIA - Correct : CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Wrong name

Wrong : COLUMBIA - Correct : COLOMBIA

Wrong name

Wrong : URAGUAY - Correct : URUGUAY

Wrong name

When Nyasaland became Malawi, lake Nyasa of course became lake Malawi. This was first forgotten, afterwards a corrected stamp was issued.

Wrong name

Series of 9 stamps, one for each Belgian Province, with the name of the province capital in the 2 national languages, first the local language, then the other one. For the province of Luxemburg, a correct mention should have been ARLON - AARLEN

Wrong name

FDG to commemorate the start of postal services on the USS ALMACK. Unfortunately the postmark showed ALMAACK instead of ALMACK.

Misspelt name

LOUVRE was misspelt LOUVRES

Wrong name

The official name of this region was Territory South of the Ohio, not Northwest Territory

Wrong place

The painting Marquette of the Indians was renamed Father Marquette on the Mississipi. However the river in the background is the Fox River in Wisconsin.

Missing letter

The VERRAZANO brigde, was named after Giovanni da VERRAZZANI, and somewhere lost a Z

Wrong location and … inverted

This stamp depicting a view of the Grand Canyon located in Arizona was first issued mentioning Colorado instead of Arizona. Only after the stamp had been corrected and issued, another error appeared : the complete scene was printed inverted.

Forgotten translation

Bilingual stamp. There is no reason why the name of the city of Liège was not translated into LUIK.

Wrong city name

Wrong : INSBRUK - Correct : INNSBRUCK

Missing letter

Wrong : CARRIBEAN - Correct : CARRIBBEAN

BABRUDA

One of the stamps shows the overprint BABRUDA instead if BARBUDA

Wrong country name

In België, the double dot is placed on the E, not on the I.

Wrong mountain

This stamp do not show the Castillo mountains, but the Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Dolomits in Italy

Wrong country

Olso is the capital of Norway, not Sweden !

Mixed up

It is almost impossible to read the value of those stamps, but this is not the real error : the names of the churches have been mixed up between the two stamps

Wrong letter.

I instead of L on the red 30c stamp

Wrong falls.

The falls pictured on this stamps are not the Pagsanjan Falls somewhere on the Philippine Islands, but the Vernal Falls in the Yosemite National Park in California, some 5.000 miles away.

Wrong building.

The legend on this stamp was Oulvianovsk - The Lenine museum. But instead of the museum, Lenin's house was pictured, and … soon corrected.

Wrong word division

The rules for division of words in Swedish are rather strict : one thing you cannot do is divide between C ans K of STOCKHOLM

Wrong map

Two townships are misplaced : BELOMBRE is where VICTORIA should be, and what is named VICTORIA is in fact CASCADE

Name inversion

Inversion of the names of Bosnia Herzegovina and Croatia

Wrong location

This scene did not happen in the Museum of Science and Industry, but in the Field Museum of Natural History

Wrong country

The Australian kangaroo stamp, oveprinted 'N. W. PACIFIC ISLANDS' was intended to be used in the former German colonies north of the Equator. It was however also used till 1925 by New Guinea, a South Pacific Island.

Wrong letter

Error in the country name in the local scripture. A corrected stamp was issued.

Language error

Wrong : HALBTHURN - Correct : HALBTURN

Missing space

Neusiedler See is written in two words

Wrong letter

Wrong : AYRES - Correct : AIRES

Correction

Series of stamps issued with the mention GOLFE DE BENIN. Was corrected the next year in BENIN.

Wrong names

The names of the Canadian Provinces were inverted on those stamps (North West Territories and Yukon)

Typing error

Wrong : GELSENHIRCHEN - Correct : GELSENKIRCHEN

Typing error

Wrong : PEAL HARBOR - Correct : PEARL HARBOR. The error was corrected.

Non consistent.

Non consistent way to translate the country's name in an international language : here me may see ETHIOPIA as well as ETHIOPIE.

Error in name

STRASSBURG do not match neither with the French nor the German name of the city.

Missing letter

Missing letter I in Algeria.

In one word

Wrong : Roc-Amadour - Correct : Rocamadour

Not consistent

Is HONG KONG written in one or two words ?

Error in map

The cities Mahlanapeng and Mokhotlong have been transposed.

Missing accent

ÍSLAND should be spelled with an accent on the firrst letter. Sometimes this is forgotten.

Confusion of names

Wrong : Columbus Cove (do not exist) - Correct : Don Christopher's Cove

Wrong letter

Wrong : Grand Benard - Correct : Grand Bénare.

Tautological

Since Kilima-Njaro means Mount Njaro, Mount Kilimanjaro repeats Mount twice. A 1954 stamp dropped the Mount.

Wrong accent

There has always been a confusion about the accent on the name of the city of Liege. Correct however is : Liège.

Wrong building

This building is not the First Governor's Residence, but an old crank mill built in 1827 in the neighbourhood.

Not consistent

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

Not clear

Is it FILIPINAS, PILIPINAS or PHILIPINNES ?

One wrong letter

Wrong : BAYAUX TAPESTRY - Correct : BAYEUX.

Error in country name

This was a reprint of an 1926 issue. In the interval the accepted name of the country in Afrikaans had changed from SUIDAFRICA to SUID-AFRICA, see other stamp.

Bad copy

When this stamp had to be reprinted, the original mold could not be found. So the image in a stamp catalogue was taken as model, completely with the perforation. But Sirmoor was wrongly copied in Sirmdor.

Wrong city

This stamp does not show La Valetta, the capital of Malta, but Fort San Angelo in the town called Vittoriosa.

Not coherent

What is the real country name : Viet-nam, Viét nam or Viét-nam ?

With or without dots

Depending on the time period this stamp was issued, it can be found with or without umlaut in CÜMHURIYETI

Wrong letter

Wrong : DOMBUSCH - Correct : DORNBUSCH.

Wrong name

The city name VILNO is not correct. The city of Vilnius was called Vina or Wilno.

One wrong letter

Wrong : TRAVANOORE - Correct on other stamps : TRAVANCORE.

Additional S

STOCKOLMS with an additional S on the left stamp.

Letter inversion

Wrong : SUFFLOK - Correct : SUFFOLK.

Inversion

Meter stamp with spelling error : SUOTH instead of SOUTH.

Wrong letter

SARAJEVO is spelled SAREJEVO on the cancellations on this cover.

Wrong letter

Wrong : Map with HAXCIVAN. Was later corrected in NAXCIVAN.

Error in country name

The country name is El Salvador, not San Salvador.

Two errors

Portugese instead of Portuguese Guinea. And the country name of Ivory Coast is missing.

Not coherent

The name of the Galapagos islands is shown in Spanish, except Genovesa, the Spanish name of Tower Island.

Error in countryname

Error in a postmark on a local stamps from the small island ISÖ in the Northern part of Sweden. Wrong : SVERIDGE - Correct : SVERIGE.

Wrong country name

As Canada also belongs to North America, commemorate the constitution of North America instead of the United States of America is not correct.

Missing language

Series of stamps with the different European countries. As the countryname is always written in the local language, the Belgian stamp shoukd have shown the countryname in the two national languages.

Wrong country name

Series of stamps with the different European countries. England is not a member of the European Community, but the United Kingdom.

Additional letter

Error on the map of this booklet : BRAUNBACH instead of BRAUBACH. A corrected booklet was issued.

Two errors

Wrong : Logusta - Correct : Locusta. Furthermore the city of KARA does not exist, should be KABARA.

Three errors

Karl instead of Carl, Lewis instead of Levis, and Los Ancelès instead of Los Angeles.

Wrong place

This is not the Ballon d´Alsace, but ´LeGrand Ballon´ near Guebwiller.

Missing apostroph

Wrong : Cains Island - Correct : Cain's Island

Letter inversion

Spelling error in postmark : KARCAHI instead of KARACHI.

Wrong location

This is not a picture of Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park, but from the Drumheller Park. A corrected stamp was issued.

Wrong letter

Wrong : SIDNEY - Correct : SYDNEY

Wrong lacation name

City name was first written without EL - a corrected stamp was issued

Missing accent

Missing accent on Montréal

Wrong letter

On the strip between 2 stamps : Norfold instead of Norfolk

Additional letters

Wrong: Pointe SCHMITH - Correct: Pointe SMITH

Wrong letter

Wrong: CYPRIS - Correct: CYPRUS

Wrong name

Lapataia is not a lake, but a bay

Missing letter

Wrong: SALINE - correct: SALINES

This is not Mount Rainier but the Matterhorn

Missing letter

Missing letter E in country name. Correct on other stamps

Missing letter

Missing letter E in country name. The corrected stamp was issued.

Missing letter

Missing letter E in country name. A corrected stamp was issued.

Wrong country

This railway is not located in Switzerland, but in Germany.

Wrong letter

Wrong: NORVAY - Correct: NORWAY