Design errors - AITUTAKI




The Cocoanut palm tree featured on this stamp does not grow on the Cook Islands, but in Tahiti more than 800 km away.
 


1920

Stamp issued to commemorate the discovery of the Cook Islands by Captail Cook. But Captain Cook was not welcomed by the inhabitants and had to run away.
 


1974

Wrong : Phalium Strigatum - Correct : Phalium Bandatum
 


1974

Wrong : Oliva SERICEA - Correct : Oliva MINIACEA
 


1974

Wrong : Tritonalia Rubeta - Correct : Bursa Bubo var. zissostoma
 


1975

The American and Russian flag are much too long.
 


1975

This painting shows the Adoration of the Shepards, not of the Magi.
 


1986

Edmond HALLEY was never knighted. Furthermore, after the title of Sir, the first name of a person is never abbreviated.
 


1986

Wrong : Durer and Melencolia - Correct : Dürer and Melancholia
 


1988

Wrong overprint : GRIFFTH instead of GRIFFITH.