A listing of postage stamps of Germany depicting design errors.
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1921 (month unknown)
Germany
5-pfennig (maybe other values too?) stamp with caption including short "s", later corrected to be a long "s" (looks like "f").
Catalog numbers: Scott 137
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1934 November 5
Germany
3+2-pfennig semi-postal stamp depicts a businessman holding a cordless telephone.
Catalog numbers: Scott B59
Approximate value: US$0.75 (Scott 2010).
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1940 November 5
Germany
4+3-pfennig semi-postal stamp depicts the town hall of Thorn, but the image is flipped left-right (statue should be left of center, entrance doors should be on left side).
Catalog numbers: Scott B178
Approximate value: US$0.45 (Scott 2010).
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1947 (month unknown)
Germany
2-pfennig stamp depicts the Sun's rays in the background, but one the rays past the shovel handle does not exist on the other side.
Catalog numbers: Scott 557
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1956 July 20
Germany (Democratic Republic)
10-pfennig and 20-pfennig stamps depict composer Robert Schumann with composition by Franz Schubert in the background. Corrected versions were released three months later.
Catalog numbers: Scott 295-96
Approximate value: US$1.15 (Scott 2010).
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1961 (month unknown)
Germany (Federal Republic)
8-pfennig stamp depicts reversed image of engraving of Gutenberg, should face right as in source 16th century copper engraving.
Catalog numbers: Scott 826
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1963 September 23
Germany (Federal Republic)
10+5-pfennig and 40+20-pfennig semi-postal stamps depict scenes of story The Wolf and the Seven Kids; from the first stamp to the last, the mother goat's clothes change from green-striped top and skirt with red crosses to yellow-striped top and skirt with blue crosses, plus other smaller changes in colors.
Catalog numbers: Scott B392,B395
Approximate value: US$0.85 (Scott 2010).
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1964 June 26
Germany (Democratic Republic)
70-pfennig stamp depicts women in agriculture, but from the overlap of the coat (should be right over left for women), the image must be reversed left-right.
Catalog numbers: Scott 705
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1965 May 5
Germany (Democratic Republic)
60-pfennig stamp depicts Yevgeny Khaldei's photo of Russian soldiers raising the Soviet Union flag on the German Reichstag, but the image is reversed left-right.
Catalog numbers: Scott 767
Approximate value: US$1.40 (Scott 2010).
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1965 June 25
Germany (Federal Republic)
15-pfennig stamp depicts a yellow bus that must have been printed facing the wrong direction, as Germany drove on the right-hand side in 1965, so this bus would have let passengers out in the middle of the road.
Catalog numbers: Scott 921
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1965 June 25
Germany (Federal Republic)
70-pfennig stamp depicts flags and sails of ship blown in opposite directions.
Catalog numbers: Scott 925
Approximate value: US$0.30 (Scott 2010).
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1965 July 28
Germany (Federal Republic)
20-pfennig stamp depicts Stuttgart television tower, with radio waves eminating from the restaurant rather than the top of the aerial.
Catalog numbers: Scott 932
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1969 October 2
Germany (Federal Republic)
30+15-pfennig semi-postal stamp depicts a bird seller, with bird drawn on outside of one cage.
Catalog numbers: Scott B452
Approximate value: US$0.30 (Scott 2010).
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1969 October 6
Germany (Democratic Republic)
10-pfennig stamp depicts the television tower and restaurant/observation deck, with the radio waves eminating from the restaurant, rather than the top of the aerial.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1142
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1970 May 13
Germany (Democratic Republic)
10-pfennig stamp adds an extra "A" to "international", resulting in "INTERNATIAONAL".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1204
Approximate value: US$0.50 (Scott 2010).
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1973 February 19
Germany (Federal Republic)
40-pfennig stamp commemorates the 500th anniversary of Copernicus, with a drawing of part of the solar system that has an extra planet in the same orbit as the Earth.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1104
Approximate value: US$0.30 (Scott 2010).
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1975 January 15
Germany (Federal Republic)
30-pfennig stamp depicts Annette Kolb, giving year of birth as 1875, when she was really born in 1870.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1155
Approximate value: US$0.30 (Scott 2010).
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1975 February 14
Germany (Federal Republic)
50-pfennig stamp depicts three ice hockey players, but one hockey stick is missing.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1163
Approximate value: US$0.30 (Scott 2010).
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1976 April 6
Germany (Federal Republic)
1976 Summer Olympic Games, Montreal, Canada.
30+15-pfennig semi-postal stamp depicts two men playing field hockey, but the image is reversed, as they should have their left hands at the top of the sticks.
Catalog numbers: Scott B532a
Approximate value: US$0.50 (Scott 2010).
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1987 April 9
Germany (Federal Republic)
80-pfennig stamp depicts various musical symbols, but the score sheet in the background has six lines instead of five.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1504
Approximate value: US$0.45 (Scott 2010).
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1987 August 20
Germany (Federal Republic)
80-pfennig stamp for the 7th European Rifleman's Festival depicts an inverted rifle trigger.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1514
Approximate value: US$0.45 (Scott 2010).
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1998 October 8
Germany
110-pfennig stamp depicts flags of sailboat flying into the wind.
Catalog numbers: Scott 2019
Approximate value: US$0.70 (Scott 2009).
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