Design errors - MONACO |
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31st Monte Carlo Rally : on some stamps, due to a colour shift, the road between Oslo and Hamburg is marked in black, not in the usual red. |
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As the sun is far away, the sunbeams are almost parallel, thus the shadow of a plane on earth can never be larger than the plane itself. |
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As the sun is far away, the sunbeams are almost parallel, thus the shadow of a plane on earth can never be larger than the plane itself. |
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Stamp features a living person (the daughter of the engraver) who is not a Royal. |
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It is well known that President Roosevelt was a philatelist, but have you ever heard that he had 6 fingers at his left hand ? |
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Diving in open water with a yacht in the background (the diver is positioned on a diving board, and not on a starting block!) is certainly not conform to the Olympic Games standards ! |
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Discus thrower in swimsuit, wearing gymshoes. |
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The baby is much too big comparing to the nurse, and much too heavy to be hold above her. |
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Tennis was not a competition at the Olympic games of London in 1948. |
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The sculptor J.F. BOSIA was pictured twice on stamps from Monaco : the same portrait was used, but was inverted on one of the stamps. And on one stamp, 1769 is wrongly shown as his year of birth : the sculptor was born in 1768 ! |
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Inverted Z in SPITZBERG |
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The wind blows the sails and the flag in opposite directions. |
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Impossible way to spread fingers, even for a well trained sportsman |
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According to Jules Verne's book, the moon vessel was launched by a giant canon. |
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Inverted portrait as for men the left part of a jacket always closes above the right part. |
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Stamp issued to commemorate the 26th Monte Carlo Rally of 1956. But the route map shows the departure from Glasgow, which in fact is the 1954 rally. |
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As no horses were allowed in Australia, this competition moved to Sweden. |
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Wrong : M. KAMPFERI - Correct : M. KAEMFERIE |
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Wrong : Devote (without accent) - Correct : Dévote (with accent). |
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Representation of a stamp of Sardaigne with the nscription BOLLO written from te botton to the top. |
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When this stamp was issued in 1963, the spectator accomodation was fully covered, not half as shown on this stamp. |
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Gotha, Vienna, Rome and Madrid are misplaced on this map. |
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The vault-pole is too long. After the jump, it has to fall underneath the lath. |
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President Kennedy was misquoted on this stamp. He actually said 'Ask not what your country CAN do for you' and not 'WILL do for you'. |
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At the air rally of 1914, this Farman owned by Renaux was equipped with skis to be able to land on water. |
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Due to missing floats, this plane is not able to land on the sea. |
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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 : Debouteville - Correct : Deboutteville. |
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The formula of methan is CH4, not HC4. |
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Borders of different countries are not correct. |
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Borders of Greece and Italy are not correct |
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Is this a flying nun ? |
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