Design errors - ITALY |
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Wrong : AYRES - Correct : AIRES |
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Correct citation : Me doctarum hederae praemia frontium - Wrong on stamp : Me doctarum ederae proemia frontium. |
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Wrong : Franco Bollo - Correct : Francobollo. |
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Wrong : 1 Centesimi - Correct : 1 Centesimo |
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Wrong : LIRA UNA - Correct : UNA LIRA or LIRE UNA |
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Wrong : LIRA UNA - Correct: LIRE UNA (see other stamp) |
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The franciscan monks have a very small round tonsure, not a bald head like showed on the stamp. |
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Virgilius was born in 70 before Christ. As after the year 1 before Christ follows the year 1 after Christ, this 2.000th anniversary was commemorated one year too early. |
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According to the international rules, ships may only hoist a flag at the front when they are anchored in a harbor. |
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On monuments, the vertical writing always goes from top to bottom ! |
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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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Wrong : ORAZIANO - Correct : ORAZIANO |
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This stamp pictures BOCCACE, not GIOTTO. |
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The message on the stamp issued in 1937 says : Centenary of Spontini. The composer Gasparo Spontini however lived from 1774 till 1851. |
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This stamp marks the bicentenary (not the centenary) of the birth of Stradivarius (1644-1737). |
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This stamp marks the 600th anniversary, not the centenary as labelled, of the death of Giotto di Bordone (1266-1337). |
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Look at the soldiers in the background : one is carrying his gun on the left shoulder, the other one on the right shoulder. |
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It is against the international rules to put flags of independent countries one above the other on the same pole. This was corrected when a similar stamp was issued the following year. |
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The wind blows the sails and the flags in opposite directions |
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A. ROSSI died in 1899, not in 1918. |
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This kind of saw has to be powered by to men, one at each side. |
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The pipe organ of this church was built long after Verdi had died. |
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From this place, the second wing of the lion should have been visible. |
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Greenland and Iceland were forgotten. |
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On the map the Istrian province of Yugoslavia was wrongly annexed by Italy. |
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The light of a lighthouse is a beam, not a bulb. |
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Fra Angelico was never declared saint. The legend Beato thus is not correct. |
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A screw is missing to adjust this microscope. |
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Probably the stamp with the most errors on it : trains drive left in Italy, steamtrains never crossed the Simplon-tunnel, there is no road at the right side of the tunnel, and coaches pulled by horses were already history at the time the tunnel was built. |
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In Italy, as in most European countries, the red colour is always at the top in traffic lights. |
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G. Tomasi is reading his masterpiece IL GATTOPARDO, but this book was published in 1958, one year after his death. |
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Eléonora Duse was born in 1859, not in 1858 as mentioned on this stamp. |
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The visit of the Iranian Shah was delayed, as the Pope passed away at that time. The visit took finally place in November 1958. |
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In the coat of arms of Paris, the lily flowers are in gold, and should have been represented in a dark colour. |
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General Mazzini has 5-branches stars at his collar. Those were introduced in 1870, and were not in use in 1859, at the end of the independence war. |
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The correct name of this book is 'Le confessioni di un Italiano' |
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Pink stamp issued to commemorate the visit of the Italian president to Peru. A wrong map was issued by the designer. To avoid diplomatic incidents, a new grey stamp with corrected map was issued. Some stamps, however, were already in circulation. This stamp, unfortunately for me, is a forgery. |
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The clock on the Pallazo Vecchio is featured with two hands on this stamp. The real clock has only one hand. |
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The city GAETA was disctructed by cannon fire from the sea and the beach. On the stamp the canon are firing to the open sea. |
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This quotation ends with a exclamation mark, which is missing on the stamp. |
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In the original text, there is an exclamation point at the end of this sentence. |
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A sprint on bicycles without brakes. |
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Inverted on stamp - see original picture |
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VERRAZANO with one Z is mostly accepted as the correct name. |
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This stamp commemorates an anniversary in 1963, but was only issued in 1964. |
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Snow crystals have six branches, not eight. |
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Bicycle wheels without spanners. |
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Wrong : semper virens - Correct : sempervirens. |
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Missing electrical power cable. |
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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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This vollleyball net is too low |
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The red color is missing on one of the flags, and the colors on another flag are inverted |
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Opium is extractedfrom plants with white flowers or white with a pink shade, not red. |
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The volleyball net is much too low. |
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Flags in different and even opposite directions. The red colour stripe on the flag of Great Britain is too long. |
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The blue colour of the Dutch and Luxemburg flag have to be different, and the blue colour on the flag from Great Britain is much darker. |
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The treaty of Rome was not signed on the 24th of March, but the following day, on March 25th. |
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The image of Archimedes on the stamp is from a bust in the National Museum of Naples, representing Archidamos III, a third-century BC king of Sparta. And the water is flowing uphill aas it leaves the top of the screw. |
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The island of Madagascar was forgotten, and the Gibraltar strait is much too wide. |
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The AIDS virus is usually represented with tentackles, not withs needles. |
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The European flag seems to disagree with the direction taken by the other flags |
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Dante lived from 1265 to 1321. He is featured near a terrestrial globe that will only be invented 200 years later. |
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Greenland and Iceland are missing on this stamp.gr |
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Columbus with earthglobe, which was not yet invented at this time. |
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The red cap with number 1 is reserved for the goalkeeper. |
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In basketball, the net has a hole to let the ball go through. |
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Pianere is a very old spelling of Paniere (basket). It was not in use anymore when this painting was made. |
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Wrong : JUBILEUM - Correct : JUBILAEUM. See picture. |
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Austria, between Germany and Italy, was completely forgotten ! |
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Wrong : Madonna col Bambino - Correct : Madonna di Senigallia. |
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The formula h2/ec on the blackboard is wrong, as e and h has been inverted. The error however, was not made by the stampdesigner who carefully copied a photo of the Nobelprize winner, who made the error during one of his lessons. |
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The location of the city of Perdasdefogu is not correct |
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The first letter of the first name is not a J, but a I. |
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The cupboard under the open book is missing. |
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The landscape in the background is not taken from Valle d'Aosta in Italy, but from Switzerland |
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The rowing ^paddles at the right side should have been visible. |
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