Various crazy errors

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Poor dressed Pope !
At least three errors on this stamp : the shape of the tiara is completely different from the one Pope John XXIII wore, a Pope only wears his tiara with church clothes and .. .look at the cross on the top : the tiara has to be turned by 90 degrees!


MALI



Missing collar
The left collar of this jacket is missing.


AUSTRIA 1960



Inverted coat
Women coats are always buttoned right over left. Or is the women wearing the coat of het husband ?


GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 1964



Differents boots ?
The spurs on the cats boots have 6 points on some values on this series, but 7 points on other stamps


GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 1968



Wrong greeting.
Scouts in uniform wearing a hat, greet with their fingers touching their hat, without hat they held the arm upwards.


PHILIPPINES 1949



Without gloves !
Collecting rocks on the moon without gloves


GRENADA 1971



Wrong uniform
According to the colors of his uniform, this piper non belongs to The Duke's of Albany's Own Highlanders, but to the 78th Ross-shire Buffs


ALDERNEY 1985



Wrong region
Girl from Vorarlberg holding an adorn with the initials IHS (Iesus Hominum Salvator), which are not used in that region. The designer of the stamp admitted that he had mixed up some sketches he once made in Liechtenstein where this adorn is typical.


AUSTRIA 1948



Wrong uniform
When Pelé scored his 1000th goal, he was not playing for the Brazilian team, but for his home team Santos.


BRAZIL 1969



Wrong side
The feather is usually situated at the left side of the hat.


BAVARIA 1911



Missing ring
The pastoral ring is missing on a finger of the right hand.


BELGIUM 1965



Different ranks
De pilots did not have the same rank, Barberan was captain, Collar was Lieutenant.


CUBA 1968



Wrong dress
According to the way the players are dressed, three different teams seem to play against each other.


FRANCE 1956



Without clothes
Nude bricklayer at work.


GERMANY 1919-20



Wrong hours
The left letterbox shows that it will be lifted between 17 and 20 h. These hours do not correspond to the lifting hours in 1896, when these letterboxes were in use.


GERMANY 1974



Wrong type
This type of parchute was not yet in use during the Normandy battle


FRANCE 1969



Strange
Is this a flying nun ?


MONACO 2012



Red line
There is not a red line on the shorts of the French soccer players


NICARAGUA 1986



Missing shoes
Barefoot exercice against the rules.


BURUNDI



Wrong clothes
The sign the Treaty of Waitangi was reported by an eye-witness who reported that 'Captain Hobson came in civilian clothes, having no time to don more of his uniform than a cocked hat'. On the stamp however, he his featured in full military uniform.


NEW ZEALAND 1940



Wrong clothing
The sign the Treaty of Waitangi was reported by an eye-witness who reported that 'Captain Hobson came in civilian clothes, having no time to don more of his uniform than a cocked hat'. On the stamp however, he his featured in full military uniform ... without hat.


NEW ZEALAND 1974



Strange game
One of the field players is wearing white gloves on both hands, and the catcher is partecipating to the game with his protection mask.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1992



Angel or woman ?
The angel Michael looks more like a flying woman in dark clothes than like an angel.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1965



Not historical
The horns on the Viking's helm are a modern artist imagination, they never existed in reality.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1982



Not historical
The horns on the Viking's helm are a modern artist imagination, they never existed in reality.


SWEDEN 1983



Missing stud
On one of the shoes, a stud is missing.


SWEDEN 1958



Wrong outfit
In soccer, the goalkeeper and the fieldplayers have always a different outfit.


WESTERN SAHARA 1998



No advertising
At the European soccer championships, the teams wear country-shirts without advertising.


NICARAGUA 1988



Mixed traditions
A Christmas Santa with the crozier of Santa Claus : a strange mix of two different traditions.


BRAZIL 1968



Wrong clothing
Wrong representation of the olympic rings - female volleyball players do not wear skirts


YUGOSLAVIA 1952



Wrong clothes
Ski competition in the winter in summer clothes


CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1970



Strange outfit
Identical outfit and missing shoes for all runners


CYPRUS 1968



Magic hat
How can this hat remain on the head of the pilot, without being blown away by the wind


ROMANIA 1989