Design errors - LUXEMBOURG |
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Count Henri IV became in 1308 Henri VII, Emperor of Germany. As Count he was never knows as Henri VII |
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Everywhere in the world, the title of a newpaper appears on the frontpage, .... except perhaps in Luxemburg |
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Mirrored representation of the communist hammer en sickle symbol. |
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Wrong : 1,50 C + 50 C - Correct : 1,50 F + 50 C. |
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The engraver forgot to invert the letter Z in his own name ! |
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Missing hyphen between BADEN and POWELL. The correct name is BADEN-POWELL |
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The bicycle on the stamp has no brakes and no gears. It is not exactly what you need to win a cyclocross competition. |
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This ship is about to run in serious trouble : the bow wave shows that she is proceeding upstream to enter the lock, but the door is still closed and the water level in the lock is still high. |
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Wrong : MDCLXVII (1667) - Correct in numerals : 1666. |
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View of the city of Luxembourg around 1850. The viaduct however did not exist at this time. |
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The flags from The Netherlands and Luxemburg are identical, except for the blue colour : on the Dutch flag, the blue color is a little bit darker. |
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The right part of this castel was only built in the 17th century. |
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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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Wrong : J. SCHUSTER - Correct : J. SCHULLER |
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The blue color on the Dutch and Luxemburg flag is not the same. |
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Missing cord |
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Stamp showing a reproduction of a earlier stamp issued in 1936. But the currency Cent, for an unknown reason, became Franc. |
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