Design errors - UNITED KINGDOM |
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A dog never moves his left or rights legs at the same time, but crossed. |
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Did you know that Halleys comet had a twin-star ? |
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Egyptian hieroglyphies show a face in frontal view, whereas faces were always shown in profile. Some people claimed that the face shown was a caricature of Prince Charles. |
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The miracle of Good King Wenceslas : the ornamentations on the dishes carried by the king and the page are not the same on all the stamps of this series. |
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According to the Bible, the star was leading the three Kings to Bethleem, but not leading the holy family on their way to Egypt. |
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The diamond ring that supports the cross and the cross have to be in the same plane, not in perpendicular ones. Correct on a stamp from 1953. |
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Missing fraction line in the facial value 2 1/2 of this stamp |
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The rope is twisted in two différent directions, sometimes single, sometimes double. |
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Greenland, Iceland and Antartica are missing. |
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Both stamps featuring Shakespeare used the same portrait, however inverted on one of the stamps. |
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Stamps issued to commemorate a Botanical congress in Edinburgh, Scotland. But the stamps feature no flowers that grow wild in Scotland. |
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Both stamps featuring the poet Robert BURNS used the same portrait, however inverted on one of the stamps. |
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Three stamps with, on each of them, a fault against the soccer rules. |
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Compared to the original tapestry of Bayeux, a dead body was removed, the others moved, and two bowmen were added. |
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The order of the scenes of the Bayeux tapestry was not respected. The first stamp shows a scene that on the tapestry follows the scene on the third stamp. |
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This is not a prehistorical bridge, just a medieval one. |
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The roofs on the houses in the background of the Menai Bridge are in fact made of slate, not red tiles. |
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Wrong disposition of the colors on the French flag. Wrong : red, white, blue - Correct : blue, white, red. |
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Wrong : Excelris - Correct : Excelsis. |
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Centurion on horseback carrying an eagle standard. The standard is much too short, and was borne by a special standard-bearer who went on foot and wore a bearskin cap. |
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Pipe without mouthpiece |
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Cittern with tuning pegs halfway down the neck of the instrument. |
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A portable harp with bars instead of strings is not a common instrument. |
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The miracle of Good King Wenceslas : the old man is gathering wood in a threeless area. |
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Two missing dots : one on the i in David, the other on the second i in Livingstone. |
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Stamps featuring English trees. But this Horse Chesnut is not a genuine one, it was imported to England in the seventeenth century. |
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A Farman biplane is shown on a stamp commemorating the first U.K. air mail flight. This first flight however, was made by Gustav Hamel in a Bleriot. |
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This is not the Imperial Airways Flying Boat from 1937, but the Maia, a later adaption with special superstructure on its wings, and not delivered until June 1938. ( |
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Thirty six seats representing the attendance of the Heads of Government to a Commonwealth meeting. As Uganda ans Seychelles never attended, they were only 34. |
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The Queen seems to be moving around on different stamps of this issue. |
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One of the stamps has a missing p after 12 ! |
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The shepheards not only did not watch thier charges, but ostentatiously turned their backs on them ! |
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The small mouse hidden by the designer on a pole would have been frightened by the passing train and would have run far away. |
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Series of stamps dedicated to British composers. George Friedrich Händel however, was German, born and educated in Halle, Germany. |
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The U.P.U. rules state that the valmue of a stamp must also be written in figures.> |
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When this series was presented to the press, it appeared that one stamp mentioned 'Hundreth' instead of 'Centenary. There was however sufficent time for reprinting with the correct words : Centenary conference. |
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When the stamp was re-issued, for an unknown reson the chimney pots of the castle were removed. |
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The Black Penny was issued in sheets of 12 by 20 stamps, and has corner letters from AA to LT. Thus the letter W is impossible. |
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This stamp from a booklet shows a George V silver 3d coin. The last time this coin was minted was in 1935, but the stamp clearly shows 1991. On a label in the booklet however, the correct coin is shown. |
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This cow is completely out of proportions. |
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A horse moves front and back legs at the same time. |
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String instrument bows have only one ‘frog’, where the hair of the bow can be tighened. |
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