Design errors - BELGIUM |
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How many tails has the Belgian lion ? One or two ? |
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The statue has been inverted on the stamp. |
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5 FRANKEN is grammatically wrong, and was corrected to 5 FRANK |
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The incorrect inscription 1,10 FRANKEN was soon corrected to 1,10 FRANK on those railwaystamp. |
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There has always been a confusion about the accent on the name of the city of Liege. Correct however is : Liège. |
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Commemoration of the first Belgian stamp. In the lower left corner, the name of the engraver was added : Jacques WIENER. In fact the first dies of this stamps were prepared by the Englishman J.H. ROBINSON. |
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Rowing boat in turbulent water, without oars ! |
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Both Italy and Belgium claimed that one of their citizens invented the dynamo. One of those stamps is certainly incorrect. |
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Series of stamps showing a plane flying over various Belgian cities. However this plane does not bore the Belgian marks (OO) but the Italian registration marks (I). |
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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 |
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In Belgium trains drive left, thus the signals are at the left side of the rails. There is no reason why the driver looks outside through the right window. |
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Playing cards do not have three top rows. |
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In België, the double dot is placed on the E, not on the I. |
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The tower shown on this stamp was nevere built. |
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Private issue celebrating the end of World War II. Inverted overprint and corrected stamps. |
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In more than 40 years, King Boudouin was only featured once without spectacles. |
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Missing hyphen between BADEN and POWELL. The correct name is BADEN-POWELL |
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Both stamps belong to the same series, one with ORGANIZATION, the other with ORGANISATION. |
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The name of the first Belgian queen was Louise-Marie, not Marie-Louise. A stamp with the wrong initials ML was withdrawn and replaced by a stamp with the correct L first letter. |
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Stamp issued in 1963 to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Jules DESTREE. However a wrong birth date 1864 was given instead of 1863. |
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Wrong : DE LE PASTURE - Correct : DE LA PASTURE |
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Wrong : DE LE PASTURE - Correct : DE LA PASTURE |
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According to the legend, the angel Michael is fighting a devil, not a drake. |
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The pastoral ring is missing on a finger of the right hand. |
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Wrong : ECHINOCACTUS - Correct : ECHINOCEREUS |
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Bilingual stamp. There is no reason why the name of the city of Liège was not translated into LUIK. |
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Wrong : CUVELIER - Correct : CUVIER. |
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The blue colour on the flag from The Netherlands and Luxembourg are slightly different, but not for the designer of this stamp. |
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The postal logo was never put at the front of a Belgian train. |
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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). |
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As there is a strong shadow under the scientist, there is no reason why this shadow is missing around the penguins. |
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Wrong representation of the Olympic rings. |
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Greenland and Iceland are missing on the map in the red heart. |
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The Belgian Cardinal Mercier was born in 1851, not in 1856 |
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Almost perfect copy, except the board in the back ground : identical flowers on the stamp, but different signs in réality. |
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In the post office of Zele, a postmark with a single circle was only usedfrom December 1878 onwards. In April of that year, a postmark with two circles was in use. |
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Too large stamps, probably made for giant letters. |
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Stamp issued to commemorate the designer of the first Belgian stamp. It was however not Jakob Wiener, but J.H. Robinson. |
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One of the players seems to have only 4 fingers at each hand. |
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The announcement leaflet showed a stamp with this statue facing right. The Post Office was forced to correct the stamp design before it was put on the market. |
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Combined issue Belgium-Netherland. On the Belgian stamp, the island of Marken is missing, correct on the Dutch stamp. |
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Stamp featuring a famous old Belgian stamp ... with two damaged teeth. |
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It is obvious that the designer was not an engineer, as he forgot to fix the wheel. |
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Stamp issued in 1994 to commemorate the visit of the Pope to Belgium. The visit however was postponed till June 1995. |
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The Thalys has only one big front window, and in the logo, the name is placed on the left. |
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In soccer, the rectangle around the goal is 5,5 m width, thus three times the size of a player. |
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In a booklet with five pairs of two stamps, those two stamps should have been identical, ... except for an additional dot ! |
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Flying plane with stopped engine |
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When illuminated with UV-light, the stamp shows an ON/OFF switch on the earth, emphasing the action against climate change by switching off the lights during one hour. |
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The design on this stamp is made from text of the universal human rights convention. |
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Children palying near a railway ? Where are the elementary security rules ? |
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