Inverted elephant.

A flying elephant ? No, just an inverted centerpiece due to a wrong insertion of paper between the green and black printing.

Forgotten paper shred

A forgotten paper shred in the printing press, and this is the result on a pre-printed envelope.

Ink drop

A drop of white ink in a printing press can have desastrous consequences

Double overprint

Double overprint on hungarian stamp

Inverted centerpiece

When the second colour was printed, the paper was put upside down, resulting in an inverted centrepiece.

Double print

It seems as if there was a serious earthquake at the moment this stamp was printed !

Inverted colour

When one sheet was discoverd with an inverted yellow colour, the US post office decided to print the same number of wrong stamps to avoid speculation.

Multiple prints.

It seems as if there was a serious earthquake at the moment this stamp was printed !

Double print

It seems as if there was a serious earthquake at the moment this stamp was printed !

On gummed side !

As the ink dried too slowly, the design also appears also on the gummed side of the stamp.

Missing countryname

Missing MAGYAR POSTA on the preprinted stamp of this postcard

Inverted

Inverted center piece

Different shape

Moutains with two different shapes in the background

On the gummed side

Stamp also printed on the gummed side

Missing background

The design in the backgroud has almost completely disappeared.

Inverted center

Inverted center - a corrected stamp was issued.

White dot

An oval white dot can be seen on the value 6d of some of thise stamps.

Gap

This variety with a gap in the 80th paralell occurs six times in a sheet.

Missing name

In the second row of a few blocs, the name of the engraver FOLON is missing.

Colour shift

Shifted blue colour

Additional decoration

A black flaw obvious and fully visible as an extra decoration on the soldier's right breast.

Additional spot

Nice variety : additional reflection in vase.

Missing letter

Initial of the first name of the engraver is missing on on of the stamps.

Additional tooth

A white flaw in Gandhi's mouth appears as a single tooth. This was later retouched.

Miissing letter

Missing D on one stamp of every sheet, correct on the others.

Many problems

Due to a paper shortage, old military maps were use to print stamps on their backside. But a lot of things went wrong : the stamps were printed on the already printed side of a military map, with an inverted black centerpiece.

Wrong letter or variety ?

Misprint in one of the tabs : DJ instead of DU.

Missing colours

Missing red and black colours.

Missing colours

Missing green and yellow colours.

Changed value

Due to a printing problem, the value of this 10 öre stamp seems to have become 1 cent.

Moving star

The red star is moving around the side of this ambulance.

Moving Queen

The Queen seems to be moving around on different stamps of this issue.

Missing part

Preprinted cover with a missing part of the stamp.

Double

Preprintedd cover with double die.

Colour shift

Colour shift

Colour shift

Colour shift

Diagonal crease

Aerogramme with a big diagonal crease.

Double strike

A closer look shows that this stamp has not been overinked, but that a double strike happened during the printing process.

Inverted center

Inverted center, after the prionting of the black colour, a sheet was inverted.

Additional perforation

Shifted colour, and an additional vertical perforation cuts the stamp in two pieces.

Colour shift

This severe colour shift results in two Santas on one stamp.

Too less ink

If the ink is not urgently refilled, what should have been a preprinted postcard with a postal value will remain ordinary paperware.

Disappearing figures

Frama ATM stamp, with 04.00 as face value, as far as wee can see, because half of the figures have disappeared.

Disappearing stamp

The stamp on this preprinted letter card is disappearing.

Wrong side

Preprinted envelope with upside down stamp at the wrong side of the envelope.

Variety

Variety : additional dot between België and Belgique.

Missing rings

Three olympic rings are missing on some stamps.

Missing figure

One stamp in a sheet showed 988 instead of 1988 at the bottom right.

Wrong year

Due to an error in the printing plate the birthdate of Händel became 1585 instead of 1685.

Inversion

Inverted Swiss flag

Variety

Variety : someone in walking in the fields.

Variety

Variety : the black colour is touching the red ball.

Missing dot

Variety : missing dot on the i of Ekonomisch on some stamps.

Color variety

Variety : blue and white leaf in the upper left corner.

Variety

Variety : black spot on the cheek.

Variety

Variety : black line above letter.

Missing stamps

Missing print of a whole stroke on the right side.

Missing countryname

This stamp was issued without the country name. This was corrected by an overprint.