Design errors - TURKEY




Depending on the time period this stamp was issued, it can be found with or without umlaut in CÜMHURIYETI .
 


1913

As some people saw an hidden message against the authorities in the shading lines under 'Postes Ottomanes', the stamp was re-issued without the shading.
 


1929

Depending on the time period this stamp was issued, it can be found with or without umlaut in CÜMHURIYETI
 


1929

Depending on the time period this stamp was issued, it can be found with or without umlaut in CÜMHURIYETI
 


1931

According to the map, the sun is rising in the Nord.
 


1939

The stars on the American flag are iupside down
 


1960

Basketballplayers with shirts of the national team of Turkey, but they did not partecipate to this Olympic games.
 


1970

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).
 


1973

Wrong year of death. Correct year is 1048.
 


1977

The number on the registration plate was an impossible combination of figures. It was removed when the stamp was issued.
 


2012

The Netherlands almost completely under water, maybe like it would be in 2100 ?