Design errors - LIBERIA




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



No starting blocs and wrong starting position.
 



Or they are running in lanes, and two runners are fighting in the same lane. Or the run is free, but then there is no reason why the middle runner stays so far from the center.
 


1923

Anchored ship with full sails,
 


1948

Who is the correct Liberian president ?
 


1956

A Roman chariot pulled by four horses ? The link with the Olypic Games is not clear.
 


1956

Inverted Swiss flag
 


1958

On his way to Sweden, President Tubman chose to stay in Paris, and never went to Sweden !
 


1968

President Kennedy, congratulating Martin Luther King as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize,had unfortunately been killed the year before !
 


1968

Martin Luther King was not born in 1928, but on 15 January 1929.
 


1969

Inverted painting, compare with original
 


1969

Wrong: CONCEPTION - Correct: ASCENSION
 


1969

Wrong: CHEESMAN - Correct: CHEESEMAN
 


1971

A jamboree is a world reunion of scouts, thus international in not necessary in International Scout Jamboree.
 


1972

View of Munchen on the stamp is inverted.
 


1975

Liberia is much bigger than Sierra Leone, but on the stamp they have almost the same size.
 


1976

The USA are 100 times larger than Liberia, but on the stamp their size is almost equal.
 


1979

Wrong : steamlined - Correct : streamlined.
 


1993

Wrong : ALPHA - Correct : ALFA
 


2000

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.
 


2008

Inverted figure - the covered eye is at the other side
 


2009

American flag with only 11 instead of 13 stripes