Design errors - PORTUGAL |
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Wrong : clube - Correct : Club. |
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19 spokes for the at that time 19 partecipating countries at the European Post Union. Portugal apparently missed the count, and showed 22 spokes . |
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The Portuguese airline company was founded in 1945, and became a private company in 1953. The commemoration of the 10th anniversary in 1963 is thus not correct. |
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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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The ship that installed the undersee cable between Portugal and England was not the featured Great Eastern, but the Hibernia. |
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The Portuguese airline carrier was founded in 1945 and privatised in 1953. The commemoration of the 35th anniversary in 1979 is not correct. |
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Inverted colours in the rainbow |
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Missing colours in the rainbow |
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On open water, without crew |
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The Belgian and French flags are inverted, and the central image is missing on the Portuguese flag. |
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WOLKSWAGEM instead of Volkswagen. |
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This Mercedes was of course not built in 1910, but in 1950. |
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This stamp was issued without the country name. This was corrected by an overprint. |
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As the United Kingdom did not adopted the Euro, it is strange to find their flag together with the other Euro-members. |
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