Design errors - SWITZERLAND |
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The sunlight on the earth and the moon clearly comes from two different directions, as if two suns were involved. |
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The representation of this one-winged postwoman has been critized as see seems to be loosing all her mail. |
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The string of this bow was frist pictured on the wrong side of the stock. The error was corrected. |
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The theologian Alexander Vinet lived and died in Clarens, but as the designer did not have city views of Clarens, he used the island of Salagon in Lake Geneva, which has no association whatsoever with Vinet. |
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The head is much too small comparing to the size of the body. |
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No reins to lead the horse |
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Ice hockey goal without net. |
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An high tension line has 6 wires and at the top an earth wire. Instead of 14, only 11 wires were represented. |
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All the continents have drifted to the North |
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The doors of this autobus are at the wrong side. |
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Missing electrical power lines. |
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Clouds behind the sun ? The climate change is everywhere. |
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Tower was placed on the wrong side. The same stamp was re-issued, without tower. |
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The towers of this catheral are shown inverted |
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Tower at the wrong side of the church. |
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The Kingfisher should have a greenish blue plumage, not a deep blue. See other stamp. |
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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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Wireless phone |
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The wind in the sails goes in the opposite direction of the smoke from the chimney |
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According to this traffic sign, cars have to drive at the left side of the road to pass the Gotthard tunnel |
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Wrong : de l'handicapé - Correct : du handicapé. |
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The wrong skyline of the mountains was corrected by issuing a new stamp. |
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As the Swiss post office does not accept handmade parcels with a string, the same stamp was issued again , this time with a parcel without string. |
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As the Swiss post office does not accept handmade parcels with a string, the same stamp was issued again , this time with a parcel without string. |
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Error in one of the four Swiss official languages. Wrong: Dregts - Correct: Dretgs |
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The relative sizes and de position of the inner planets and the sun are not respected. And where is the moon ? |
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In 1915, during the first world War, no silver coins were issued |
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