Design errors - SWEDEN |
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As a Danish printer was asked to produce a series of stamps for the Swedish Stockhoms Lokalpost, the mistake that ocured could have been expected : the value was printed in ØRE (Danish) instead of ÖRE (Swedish). The error was corrected. |
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This stamp was issued in 1921, but according to the postmark, this cover was already cancelled in Strömstad in 1919 ! A machine cancellation on the backside shows a more acceptable date : 1926. |
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This sea-plane will have difficulties to land with only one pontoon. |
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Only eleven legs for three horses. |
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There is no coordination between the wind in the sails and in the flags. |
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The featuring of postal riders on Swedish stamps is not coherent : sometimes he is blowing his horn with his left hand, sometimes with the right. |
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This is not the famous Swedish chemist Carl v. Scheele (as no picture exists from him), but probably his nephew. |
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The foal is shown feeding from behind. The correct way to feed is shown on a British stamp and on a picture. |
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Plow with the reins around your neck ? Unusual and ... dangerous. |
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Missing hyphen. This is not a portrait of Strind BERG, but STRINDBERG. |
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Missing hyphen. This is not a portrait of Christo Pher POLHEM, but from Christopher POLHEM.. |
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The first Swedish locomotive was not the FRYKSTAD featured on this stamp which was delivered in 1855, but the FÖRSTLINGEN delivered in 1853. |
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Horse with a missing, and a broken leg. |
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One of the railbuilders has clearly the intention of murdering his co-worker with his too long pickaxe. |
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On one of the shoes, a stud is missing. |
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Laurence Olivier's first name was mispelt three times wrongly as Lawrence. |
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Wrong : Henry - Correct : Henri. Correct on Belgian stamp. |
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When giving the names of a number of people, the noraml way is to go from left to right. On this stamp, Sweden is breaking this rule, starting from the right. |
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The engraver's name Tägtström is mispelt Tägström with a missing T. |
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Design of the seal on the stamp is a little bit different (no floor and different text) from the original one. |
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The engraver Cz. Slania has signed all the stamps of this booklet ending with S C. On one of the stamps, however, the C is reversed. |
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This stamp features Hjalmar Söderberg, who wrote about the Hearts incurable loneless. Is this way some people saw a scantialy dressed lady sitting on his lap. |
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The correct name of Heyse's novel is 'Das Mädchen von TREPPI, not 'von TERRPI'. |
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To illustrate Swedish forging, a bronzen piece was used : bronze is of course casted, not forged. |
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The name of this booklet is 'Around the polar circle' . But a stamps that appears twice in the booklet is based on a picture taken at Vemdalen, closer to Stockholm than to the polar sircle. |
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The haircut clearly shows that the Swedish King has been featured inverted on one of those stamps belonging to the same booklet. |
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The television camera in the Swedish Parliament is an automatic, fixed camera, never operated by man. |
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Not an error for Sweden, as Swedish phones have the 0 before the 1. In other countries however, the zero is located after the 9. |
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The word SWEDEN comes out from the Morse key in reverse order. |
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In this position, the claws of this Gyrfalcon should have been visible. |
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Between the legs of the horse, you will find the name IDA, which incidentally is the name of the grand daughter of the engrver Arne Wallhorn. |
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The Danish King Canute is shown in front of the Lund cathedral in 1085. The cathedral is showed with two towers then had only one tower. |
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The Danish king Canute (Knut) is shown in 1085 in front of the city of Helsingborg, but the featured castle Kärnan was not built until more than 300 years later. |
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On the 4 kronor stamp issued for the STOCHOLMIA 86 stamp exhibition, the author Strindberg writes a letter to Harriet Bosse, clearly dated by him in 1905. On the cover however, the cancellation shows August 19th 1906. |
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Inversion : the featured high jumper Patrick Sjöberg normally starts running from the right, and thus ought to jump to the left. |
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According to a Swedish novel, this is Bishop Brask reading a piece of paper that saved his life. But the drawing was so poor, that many people saw him drinking a glass of Schnapps. |
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Following the artist's name is an sc (meaning sculpit) indicating engraving. But these stamps are not 'engraved', they are offset. |
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This is not the commemoration of 100 year of Labour Movement, but the celebration of 100 years Swedish Socialist Party. |
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The water mark 'Crown' showed on this stamp was never used on a coil stamp with two-sided perforation. |
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On a printing plate, the stamp has to be inverted. The engraver started correctly, but changed his mind in the middle of the word SVERIGE |
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Reeproduction of the first 'Skilling stamps' from 1855. In the margins, however, the yellow inscription stands near the green stamp and vice versa. |
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