Strange two 5-faces dice.

Stay away from the MACAU casinos as they use strange dice with two 5-faces.

Wrong shadow

The fisherman has his arms close to his body, but his shadow is quite different

Wrong shadow

The shadow of the tree points right .... in the direction of the sun !

Locked cog wheels.

This stamp was issued to illustrate progress in the industry of Korea. But in this position, the cog wheels are locking each other and will not move

According to the big hand on this clock, it is not yet 12 o'clock, but the little one tells us it is already past twelve.

Broken tradition

It is a tradition that no other people are featured on British stamps together with members of the Royal Family. Is this the reason why they put the local commoner, Mr. Harold Blumenthal behind bars ?

Softer message

At the time this stamp was issued, tuberculosis was still an incurable disease. To some people the message Help stamp out sounded a little bit too hard, so the stamp was reissued with a softer cry : Help promote health.

Strong milk

This is strong baby milk, as the milk level in the bottle follows the inclined bottle.

Worthless bow

Although the cord is tensed, the bow is not bowed, and so the arrow will never leave the bow.

Strange wind.

According to the flag, it is windy at the top. Nevertheless the flame of the torch is not disturbed.

Changed design

The design of this stamp was based on a painting by Benjamin West. However 3 people were removed and one added.

Strange Queen

What is the Queen doing on the sheet featuring FAMOUS MEN ?

Stearless horse

No trace of a bridle. How can the farmer stear his horse ?

Missing shadow.

The shadow of the table is missing

Different tails.

How many tails has the Belgian lion ? One or two ?

Missing shadow.

As there is a strong shadow under the scientist, there is no reason why this shadow is missing around the penguins.

Wrong side !

The Niagara falls, on a Canadian stamp, shows … the American side of the falls !

Missing Fathers

On the stamp issued in 1917, 12 Fathers of the Confederation were omitted. When the stamp was reissued 10 years later, the missing Fathers were added !

Falling tree

A drama in the woods : the falling tree will probably hit the unknowingly forester, and his friend does not seem to care about it.

Tired farmer.

The farmer will be tired at the end of the day as he steps on the weak ploughed soil, instead of the horses.

Wrong clock.

Clock on the Parliament tower of Ottawa : IV on the stamp is in fact IIII, VIII only shows VII, and on the real clock the numbers point to the centre.

Dangerous situation

As one of the ropes is not fixed correctly, this box will soon fall.

Rubber tree

Rubber trees do not have apparent roots. And the rubber starts leaking immediately after the tree is cut. A first stamp was soon corrected.

Ambigious inscription

The inscription IMPERIAL CHINESE POST was a little bit ambigious, and was later corrected in CHINESE IMPERIAL POST.

Leaking chimney

On one of the stamp the chimney is considerably longer … with the smoke merging from the middle.

Raising building

The same party building of Nanchang with 3 or 4 floors, on 2 stamps issued within 12 months.

Wrong clock.

The hour hand is alwys in the inner position of a clock, the minute hand should thus have been pictured on top.

Impossible age

Gerontolists generally agree that there have never been authenticated cases of human beings reaching such advanced ages.

Wrong perspective

The platform width is 12 mm in the front, and 12,5 mm in the rear, which is of course against the perspective rules.

Setting sun.

When someone pointed out that the first official issue of the new-born state did not show a rising sun, but a setting sun over the eastern front of the castle, the design was revised, and the sun carefully removed !

Flying bench ?

The left leg of this bench is missing

Strange pencil.

Sharpen that good old pencil you still have somewhere in your house, and look at the result. Surely not as wrongly shown on the Danish postmark, but close to the correct Dutch stamp.

Taking risks !

During war, the blackout strictly prohibited illuminated windows, and the resistance would never have deployed activites in their neighbourhood.

Wrong direction

Lady in fluttering garments which indicate that she is sowing againts te wind.

Wrong representation

The Pont du GARD has 4 little arches between two pillars, not 3 as designed on the stamp.

Quite dangerous !

Three men and a boy making an horse-shoe, with hammers wielded in a dangerous and impossible way.

Free horses.

The horses are not attached to the plough, and the naked farmer has no way top steer them.

Rising sun.

The designer wanted a rising sun, as symbol for the nazi-regime. But he put it in the west, prefiguring perhaps the fall of that regime.

Wrong area.

The miracle of Good King Wenceslas : the old man is gathering wood in a threeless area.

New design.

When the stamp was re-issued, for an unknown reson the chimney pots of the castle were removed.

Dangerous !

Four men, working with hammers on the same piece. Quite dangerous !

Missing pillar !

The Parthenon-temple in Athens has 8 pilars on its font side, not seven !

Wrong scout greeting.

Scouts in uniform wearing a hat, greet with their fingers touching their hat

Wrong position

A man is being X-rayed with his arms in the wrong position, the arms should indeed be in the akimbo-position.

Wrong hand

The statue on the top of the post building in Dublin holds the javelin in the right hand.

Wrong lighthouse.

The light of a lighthouse is a beam, not a bulb.

No issue.

There is a carriage way under the railway bridge, which was omitted on the left side. When the tamp was reissued, this error was corrected.

Big envelopes.

The size of the envelopes is out of proportion.

Who won ?

The election od the 43rd president of the USA was a real thriller, as both candidates claimed the victory during weeks. Liberia wanted to be the first country to issue a stamp with the new president, and printed stamps featuring each candidate.

Bad design.

Even Churchill will not have recognized himself in this stamp.

Wrong quote.

President Kennedy was misquoted on this stamp. He actually said 'Ask not what your country CAN do for you' and not 'WILL do for you'.

Missing detail.

The whale that is about to be harponed, has a good chance of getting away, as there is no rope attatched to the harpoon.

Missing decoration.

Missing decoration on the ceremony dress of the Queen. The error was corrected.

Bad restauration.

The mediaeval frescoes of this church had been vanished during centuries. During the restauration they were removed by accident. A local minor artist replaced them in time for the inauguration, but some time later the forgery was discovered (the artist included some portraits of his relatives, even from the filmstar Marlene Dietrich). The frescoes were cleaned off, only the stamps remain as witnesses of the fraud.

Wrong city.

The blason of East Berlin instead of West Berlin was pictured on this stamp : the coat of arms with the bear should be pointed, not rounded.

Wrong design.

The design of the castle of Charlottenburg was ovver-simplified : the characteristic weather-clock in the shape of a woman has disappeared, as have the stautes on the roof.

One too less.

One platform of this tower has disappeared : there are six platforms, not five.

Missing windows.

Townhall of Bamberg with only seven windows on the fist floor, and eight on the second floor. In fact each floor has nine windows.

Artist's licence ?

The old town of Nürnberg is hardly to be recognized on this stamp.

Wrong representation

The characteristic wrinckled, plastic formed roof on the Cultural Palace in Dresden has been coimpletely levelled on the stamp.

Wrong foot.

Wrong foot forwards : this man will hurt himself.

Missing shoes !

Painful job, without shoes !

Strange grip

Impossible use of such an heavy hammer

Different shape

Moutains with two different shapes in the background

Missing reins

No reins to lead the horse

Wrong side

The string of this bow was frist pictured on the wrong side of the stock. The error was corrected.

Wrong title

H.R. meaning Her Majesty was corrected in H.R.H. : Her Royal Highness

Clever re-use !

Stamp prepared in 1942 to celebrate the 20th annniversary of the Fascism, but not issued, due to the political changes. The same stamp, with overprint, was issued the next year to celebrate the fall of the Fascism !

Free horses

Missing harness and reins to stear these horses.

Not the real one ?

The real Superman has a big red S covering a most of his chest.

Impossible cube

A Rubick's cube with 3x3x4 levels is technically impossible

Strange wind

The flags are pointing in different directions

Floating whale

A whale cannot float on water

Wrong number of strings

Only four instead of six strings for this guitar, they dissapear in the center hole where they become five.

Dangerous transportation

Bicycles without brakes, and horses without reins.

Strange wind

According to the flag the wind is stromg, but the flames of the fire do not feel the wind.and flames seem not to

Wrong number

Daffodils have 6 floral leaves, not 5 as featured on this stamp.

Not easy and secure

The bearers use the same shoulder, which is less confortable and same than alternate the sholders.

Additional pole

Additional pole on the tower on one of the stamps

No relationship

There is no relationship between J. Enrique Pestalozzi (1746-1827) who died 60 years before the german newspaper Argentinisches Tageblatt was founded.

Wrong model

This stamp features a Rower scout, but the model is in fact an English scout, Kenneth Courtenay.

Wrong statue

The Statue of Liberty pictured on this U.S. stamp is not the neoclassical icon on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, but the replica at the New York Casino and Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Wrong direction

This telegraphic line goes from East to West,, not from North to South as inbdicated by the position of the sun.

Wrong twist

The stamps shows too much twists in the wreath of the Australian coat-of-arms.

Wrong colour

The colour of the fleur-de-lys is gold, thus a dark colour should have been chosen.

Wrong colour

As the colour of the lion and the fleur-de lys is gold, they should have been represented in a dark colour.

Wrong direction

The lid covering the pipe opens in the wrong direction

Wrong nationality

Issue of 9 stamps featuring Austrian doctors. Gerald Freiherr Van Swieten lived in Vienna, but was Dutch.

Wrong nationality

Issue of 9 stamps featuring Austrian doctors. Karl Freiherr Von Rokitansky lived in Vienna, but was born in Moravia, Czechoslovakia.

Wrong nationality

Issue of 9 stamps featuring Austrian doctors. Joseph Skoda lived in Vienna, but was born in Pilsen, Bohemia

Wrong nationality

Issue of 9 stamps commemorating Austrian doctors. Ferdinand Ritter Von Arlt however was born in Graupen, South Bohemia

Wrong nationality

Issue of 9 stamps commemorating Austrian doctors. Theodor Billtoth however lived in Vienna, but was born in Germany

Wrong nationality

Issue of 9 stamps commemorating Austrian doctors. Theodor Meynert however lived in Vienna, but was born in Germany

Disputed design

To commemorate the Polish independence, a stamp was issued with crossed swords, symbols of the Teutonic Knights, trampled by the featured people. After a reaction from Germany, the stamp was reissued, without the swords.

Strange choice

Why choose a descending curve to illustrate a stamp commemorating the Spanish Bureau of Statistics ?

Not professional

Cards are not ordered correctly (by colour, then in increasing or decreasing order).

Wrong period

This is not a prehistorical bridge, just a medieval one.

Wrong year

Instead of the data from 1989, the data of 1995 were shown.

Missing cupboard

The cupboard under the open book is missing.

Without spectacles

In more than 40 years, King Boudouin was only featured once without spectacles.

Not satisfied

The president did not like the way he was pictured on the stamp, and ordered the issue of a corrected stamp.

Wrong colour

The colour of the Esperante star is green as shown on an Austrian stamp, not white.

Historical truth

On David's painting, Napoelon's mother was represented, although se was not present at his coronation. On a French stamp, she discretely disappeared.

Wrong associations

Wheat is associated with the province of Alberta, and oil is associated with Saskatchewan. The two provinces were inverted.

Strange natural resource

Natural resources of Canada : the fish however are sharks (see their tails) which are far to be natural resources, but more a destructive nuisance. Hidden date and initial.

Error in arms of coat

A fleur-de-lys is missing in the arms of coat of Quebec.

Wrong logo

Guides with the emblem of boy scouts. The girls emblem is a tree leaf clover.

Easy to proclame

This sheet was issued : ... in recognition of the warm friendships and mutual understanding which stamp collecting promotes among te people ... But after the issue, a conflict about Taiwan occured, and China withdrawned its participation to the stamp exhibition.

Missing stars

On the 3c provisional stamps, only six stars surrounded the eagle, instead of nine, on star for each confederated state. This was corrected in the definitive issue.

Better late than never

This series of stamps, produced in 1967 to commemorate the Jewish community in the country, was withdrawn to express the dissaproval agaiinst the Arab-Israeli Six-Day war. The stamps were discreetly sold a couple of years later.

Without effort

The horses are controlled without effort

Wrong direction

The shadow of the legs is pointing in the direction of the sun.

Strange

Is it SELLASSIE or SELASSIE ? Furthermore a stamp claims to celebrate 'his first 60th birthday'. What else could it be ?

Contrary winds

Flags ans sails indicate contrary winds.

One too much

Chessboard with 9 rows.

Missing wings

The caduceus is the staff carried by Hermes 5Mercurius)in Greek mythology. It is a short staff entwined by two serpents, sometimes surmounted by wings.

Not the first

Jean de Vienne was not the first admiral of France, since this title was created in 1270, this title was given at least at ten people before him.

Missing stars

The two stars were ommitted in this fleur-de lys symbol.

Two missing stars

A French Marchal has seven stars on his uniform. As Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny recieved this title after his death, no picture of him existed with seven stars, so he was featured in his general uniform.

Wrong colour

In the arms of Paris, the lilies do not have a white colour, but a gold colour.

One too much

On the stamp the clock of the famous bell-tower La gros-Horloge in Rouen has two pointers, in reality there is only one.

Wrong direction

The machine pistol should point towards the left, not to the right.

Strange position

The worker is carrying a stone like an accordeon.

No head protection

An adequate head protection is missing.

Many errors

Many errors : seven starts insteas of nne flowers, only two legs and not three on a scimitar and not a sword, open mouth with visible tongue, no splitted tail, and a protection around the right arm.

In the middle

Bell of Freedom with the tongue to the left, speedily corrected with the tongue to the right, and finally, to avoid further discussions, with the tongue in the middle.

Wrong coat of arms

Instead of the coat of arms of the region of SAARLAND, the stamp shows the coat of arms of the city of SAARBRÜCKEN.

Forgotten

This German stationery card from 1940 commemorates 100 year Stamps, but as they were in war with England, did not mention that the first stamp was British.

Strange illustration

St George slaying the Dragon : perhaps a questionable illustration during World War II as St George is a well known symbol for Great Britain.

Misquotation

Misquotation from the German Federal Republic Charter. Wrong : Die Staatsgewalt geht vom Volke aus - Correct : Alle Staatsgewalt geht vom Volke aus.

Not clear message

One hundred year 1 May is not a strong message. Better would have been : One hundred year Labor Day.

Wrong stamp

'Stamp Day' but one ot these stamps, the third from left, had nothing to do with Stamp Days, it was issued to copmmemorate 125 years of stamps in 1965.

Wrong illustration

The stamp shows postal traffic between New-Ulm and Glänsberg around 1846, and has nothihng to do with 'Letter post despatch Thurn & Taxis 1852'.

Mirror newspaper

Title of the newspaper at the wrong side.

Without permission

The designers of this stamp used without permission a photo from a professional photographer, who complained about it.

Wrong colours

Rainbow with incorrect colours.

Inversion

The colours of the rainbow are invered.

Stamp with error stamp

Stamp featuring a stamp from 1859 with error : facial value 2 shilling, but in letters zwei ein halb.

Wrong colors

Wrong colors on the shield og Tarragona : blue instead of red, and silver instead of gold.

Coïncidence

Return to the writer, said a postmark on this letter, pointing to a stamp featuring Jean Sibelius.

Many errors

Many errors even for a black and white representation : silver lion in first quarter, silver eagles on a red band in the third quarter, lion on a black field in the fourth quarter.

Why not ?

When he died, Leclerc was a five-stars general. And why is the fag missing on the cathedral of Strasbourg, as he had declared that he would not stop fightng before.

Misplaced overprint

Overprinted Christmas stamp, as if the angel was singing : Referendum 1978, vote early.

Wrong hand

Boy-scouts use a special left-handed handshake. Correct on a stamp from Japan.

Missing mullets

Missing mullets in the lily of the scouts logo. Correct on a stamp from Grenada.

Ballon

In his book Around the world in 80 days, there is no mention of any balloon.

Mixed up

The motives of the two stamps have been mixed up, and do not match anymore with the inscriptions.

Opposite direction

The smoke of the boat and from the chimney are going in opposite directions

No currency

The statue of the Hawaiian King Kamehamha I shown on this stamp was in fact modelled from a young Kanakan athlete, named Kaopuiki, as no likeness of the King was known. No mention od the currency, only 5.

Not white

The Esperanto-star is green, not white. A dark star would have been more suitable.

Lost King

80th anniversary of the first Hungarian stamp. King Franz Joseph was carefully removes and substituted with de date.

Useless gun

The ammunition drum has a wrong shape, and the trigger is missing

Forgotten wish

General Leclerc had declared that he would not enter Strasbourg again, without the French flag at the top of the cathedral. This was forgotten and afterwards corrected.

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.

Wrong side

The scythe on the stamp is made for left-handed people, but carried by a right-handed worder.

Too big

Such an impressive axe was never carried by a Viking, mor likely by a mediaeval executioner.

Not professionel

This is an almost impossible way to fix a bandage.

Wrong title

Picture taken after the wedding ceremony. It is thus wrong to call the fresh Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge simply Miss Catherine Middleton.

Many errors

The alligator should rest on a plumet helmet, the woman should have a single feather bound to her brow, and the man should have a stringed bow. Correct on later stamps.

Without permission

The illustration of this stamp was copied, without permission, from the Bulletin nr 2 for the STOCHOLMIA-86 stamp exhibition.

Wrong citation

The correct quotation from the Declaration of Human Rights is 'Thou shalt not enslave him, not 'Thou shall ....'

Missing cross

A cross is missing on a tower on some of these stamps.

Too big

A chessboard has 8 by 8 squares.

Issued again

This stamp was withdrawn because the banknote was printed in the wrong colour. Was issued again some years later.

Dangerous

Correct a scythe on your knee using a hammer, is not very intelligent.

No risks

On the original drawing, a black child is holding a white one. A French stamp from 1989 shows it correctly, but on the American one, no risk was taken, with two white chiildren.

Never issued

The 50 F Golden coin honouring the 70th birthday of Prince Franz Josef II was in fact never issued.

Slight different

Design of the seal on the stamp is a little bit different (no floor and different text) from the original one.

Wrong pyramid

In line with the sphinx is not the Cheops pyramid, but the Chefren pyramid.

Old picture ?

When this stamp was issued in 1963, the spectator accomodation was fully covered, not half as shown on this stamp.

Wrong direction

Representation of a stamp of Sardaigne with the nscription BOLLO written from te botton to the top.

Too small

The magnifying glass lies on the stamp, as thus has the same size as the stamp, only 2 cm.

Wrong time

Sowing in summertime, as in the nearby field, the corn is ready to be harvested.

Two errors

When captain Cook landed at Poverty Bay, his ship was ancored half a mile from the shore, not close as on the stamp. And the man are pushing and pulling the boat in opposite directions.

Two errors

The seaweed with this shrimp is the Serrated wrack (Fucus serrratus) which does not occur further south than Spain, and hence does not occur in Morocco. Wrong : ARISTEOMORPHA - Correct : ARISRAEOMORPHA

Big ball

The boy is the middle spreads his hands to catch a much smaller ball than the one featured on the stamp.

Too big

The shadow of this plane is much too big, cannot be larger than the plane itself.

Missing countries

In this 'flaming sun' the number of threads are supposed to match the number of coutries in CEPT, 24 at the time the common issue of this stamp was conceived, but before the stamp was issued Jugoslavia and Malta also joined, so there should have been 26 threads (France and Andorra got it right).

Missing countries

In this 'flaming sun' the number of threads are supposed to match the number of coutries in CEPT, 24 at the time the common issue of this stamp was conceived, but before the stamp was issued Jugoslavia and Malta also joined, so there should have been 26 threads (France and Andorra got it right).

Wrong direction

Flags in different directions.

Missing countries

In this 'flaming sun' the number of threads are supposed to match the number of coutries in CEPT, 24 at the time the common issue of this stamp was conceived, but before the stamp was issued Jugoslavia and Malta also joined, so there should have been 26 threads (France and Andorra got it right).

Missing countries

In this 'flaming sun' the number of threads are supposed to match the number of coutries in CEPT, 24 at the time the common issue of this stamp was conceived, but before the stamp was issued Jugoslavia and Malta also joined, so there should have been 26 threads (France and Andorra got it right).

Only two

Playing cards do not have three top rows.

Wrong title

Ed. Halley was never knighted, and the length of the comet is somewhat exaggerated.

Too big

The palm trees on the background are completely out of proportion.

Not coherent

The shadow of the leopard appears right below the animal, while the sun is in the back.

No connexion

The name of the state was derived from the Dutch Prince of Oranje, there is thus no connexion with an orange tree.

Missing head

The fairy head at the feft food of Peter Pan has been omitted.

Wrong direction

A leg bandage starts at the foot and goes up to the knee.

Incorrect stars

Instead of the three eight-pointed stars with wavy arms, the stamp shows three six-pointed mullets with straight-sided arms.

Two languages

Stamps are issued in French and English. When a stamp is issued in French, the English mention EIIR stays before the French mention RF. Sometimes forgotten and corrected.

Two languages

Stamps are issued in French and English. When a stamp is issued in French, the English mention EIIR stays before the French mention RF. Sometimes forgotten and corrected.

Two languages

Stamps are issued in French and English. When a stamp is issued in French, the English mention EIIR stays before the French mention RF. Sometimes forgotten and corrected.

Two languages

Stamps are issued in French and English. When a stamp is issued in French, the English mention EIIR stays before the French mention RF. Sometimes forgotten and corrected.

Dangerous

This is not a recommended way to carry a gun, with the barrel pointed to your head.