Design errors - PAPUA NEW GUINEA




The local currency TOEA is never written with a capital letter. A wrong stamp was corrected and reissued.
 



The identification of the Junkers F13 that belonged to the Lutherian Mission Finschafen was VH-UTS. The VH-UTM was a GAL ST-12 Monospar that disappeared above Queensland on 16.2.1942
 



This series is referenced by the local post office as : The first fleet leaving the United Kingdom in 1787. The United Kingdom however did not existed before 1801.
 


1966

The 2nd Pacific Gales were postponed till 1967.
 


1969

Sailboat without helm and rudder.
 


1970

The logotype on the plane tail is reversed.
 


1986

Two names of birds were mixed up : the bird on the 15t stamp is the 'Rhipidura rufifrons', on the 45t stamp the 'Pitta erythrogaster'.
 


2007

Wrong : ILITERACY - Correct : ILLITERACY.