Design errors - GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC |
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Wrong representation of this building : the stairs cover only one gate, not three. |
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During war, the blackout strictly prohibited illuminated windows, and the resistance would never have deployed activites in their neighbourhood. |
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The billowing skirt of the skater shows that she is is moving to the roght of the stamp. However the tracing on the ice suggests that she is moving left. |
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Stamp issued to commemorate the composer SCHUMANN. Someone soon discovered that the music shown in the background was written by another composer, SCHUBERT. A new stamp was immediately issued, this time with music composed by Schumann. |
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This skirunner gives the impression to hold his stick between his legs. |
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Avicenna was born in 980, not is 952 as mentioned onb the stamp. |
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The worker is carrying a stone like an accordeon. |
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An adequate head protection is missing. |
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Strange way to shake hands, with one left and one right hand. |
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Lefthanded or inverted image ? |
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Wrong : Harmensz Rembrandt van Ryn - Correct : Rembrandt Harmensz van Ryn. |
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Wrong : RAFFAELO - Correct : RAFFAELLO |
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Not adapted outfit for this women to run this hurdle race. |
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A bicycle wheel has 32 spokes, not 24 or 28 as pictured on those stamps. |
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West and East Germany, both issued a stamp to commemorate Thomas MANN. As can be seen by the haircut, on one of those stamps however, the portrait was inverted. |
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The javelin is held almost at the end. |
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The Zeiss-building in Iena has only 14 floors, not 16. |
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This tour started and ended in Prague. The last stage from Pilsen back to Prague was forgotten. |
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The antennas of the Sputnik I on the stamp have less in common with the antennas on the real Sputnik I. |
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The Systema Naturae was written in 1735. Commemorate the 200th anniversary on a stamp issued in 1958 isvery strange. |
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The first day cancellation was stopped on the first day of issue : instead of 9 november, the postmark beared the wrong date 7 november. |
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The moon map is showed upside down, UHR after the landing time is not necessary as there is already an H after 22, an the landing happened two days before full moon, not after full moon as depicted. |
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A deer does not have a tail. |
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Lynx do not live in couples. |
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The windshield wipers of the small right van are not parallel. |
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One of the windshield wipers is pointing to the left, the other one to the right. |
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The machine pistol should point towards the left, not to the right. |
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A chess championship has nothing to do with an Olympiade, the orgenisation of the Olympic Games. |
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The player with a white and red shirt misses a finger at his right hand |
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Some people with much imagination saw a nazi-cross in the raised hand of Titov. |
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Wrong : KILO-VOLT - Correct : KILOVOLT. |
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Gagarin's flight took him only once around the earth. The stamp shows additional rotations |
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The seeman is signalling a letter that cannot be found in the flagbooks. In mirror however, it suddently stands for a I or 9. |
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Ask this man to uncross his legs, you will see that he is wearing two identical left shoes. |
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Women coats are always buttoned right over left. Or is the women wearing the coat of het husband ? |
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Characters from a children TV-program, but the aerial included in the design is not a TV aerial, but an upside-down UKW aerial which could only receive TV-pictures at a very short range. |
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The sun crown is only visible during a total sun eclips, and thus cannot be seen together with the black spots on the sun surface. |
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'Leipziger Messe 800 Jahre' : Leipzig was founded in 1165, but the Fair got its privileges from Maximilian I only in the year 1497. |
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Wrong : LIBERTAD PRO - Correct : LIBERTAD PARA |
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On the original photograph the banner did not wear the word DEUTSCHLAND, which in any way has an incorrect short S instead of an long one in the middle of the word. |
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Mirror image on the stamp, comparing to the original photo. |
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Stamp issued in 1965 to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the Leipzig Spring Fair. Although Leipzig was founded in 1165, the fair privileges where only given by Maximilian I in 1497. |
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The Leipziger Messe was founded by Maximilian I in 1497, not in 1165. |
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In Spanish, when a sentence ends with an exclamation mark, it always starts with an upside down exclamation mark. |
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This canoetist is making a very strange paddle-action. |
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The paddles seem to be hold behind the neck. |
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Documents show that this castel alreaydy existed in 1080, not earlier. |
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Wrong : pneumo- nanthe - Correct : pneumon- anthe |
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Wrong : Cepha- lanthera - Correct : Cephal- anthera |
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Two left hands, and and impossible way to hold the rifle with the left arm. |
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The rifleman on the right has lost his ski-sticks and has no number on his chest. |
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Often considered as an error : two planes with identical registration numbers DM-WKM. But take a closer look at the upside-down plane : its registration number is slightly different : DM-WKN ! |
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The spurs on the cats boots have 6 points on some values on this series, but 7 points on other stamps |
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In waterpolo, the teams always wear black or white caps, the goalkeepers a red one. |
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For political reasons, the Western countries did not participate to those games. The denomination 'European Games' is thus not correct, or at least exagerated. |
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MIR (Peace) is written in Western letters, and not, as could be expected, in the Russian alphabeth. The same word however exists in other slavonic languages, so the way it is written could be correct ! |
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SCHÜTZT IHN is grammatically not correct, should have been SCHÜTZT SIE. |
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This might be a noisy restaurant, as the waves do not originate from the mast above, but from the inside of the restaurant and the viewing tower. |
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The featured train is a E 03 powered with electricity, on the stamp the power lines are missing. |
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One of the runners puts her 2 arms in front of her, another one holds her 2 arms behind her back. |
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WIR SCHWÖREN was written correctly many times, except once right below : WIR SCWÖREN |
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INTERNATIAONAL looks impressive, but is of course not correct. Remove an A, and read INTERNATIONAL |
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The skyline of the city of Berlin is not visible behind the Brandenburger Gate. |
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De Caravaggio was born in 1571, not in 1573. |
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Wrong : DOMBUSCH - Correct : DORNBUSCH. |
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