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A chronological listing of world postage stamps depicting design errors.
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1936 March 1
Saint Lucia
1-penny and 6-pence stamps misspell "COLOMBUS SQUARE", the second "O" should be a "U". This is corrected in the 1938 issue. 2 1/2-pence stamp depicts Columbus Square in Castries, mislabelled "COLOMBUS". The name was corrected on next issue in 1948.
Catalog numbers: Scott 96; Stanley Gibbons 117
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1936 (month unknown)
France
85-centime through 50-franc airmail stamps depict a plane with no tail rudder for left-right movement control.
Catalog numbers: Scott C8-C14
Approximate value: US$374.50 (Scott 2014).
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1936 (month unknown)
Ivory Coast
1-, 2-, 4-, 5-, 10-, 15-centime stamps depict a Baoulé woman, misspelled "BALOUÉ".
Catalog numbers: Scott 112-13,115-18
Approximate value: US$1.50 (Scott 2010).
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1937 May 24
France
90-centime stamp commemorates the 300th anniversary of René Descartes' Discours de la Méthode, with wrong caption containing "SUR LA". A corrected stamp is issued in under a month.
Catalog numbers: Scott 330
Approximate value: US$1.40 (Scott 2014).
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1937 October 25
Italy
1.25-lira stamp marks the 600th anniversary of the death of Giotto di Bondone, but pictures Giovanni Boccaccio.
Catalog numbers: Scott 393
Approximate value: US$3.25 (Scott 2010).
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1937 November 1
Greece
10-lepta stamp depicting Lady of Tiryns includes misspelled caption that reads "TYPIN" instead of "TIPYN". A corrected stamp was issued in 1938.
Catalog numbers: Scott 397
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1938 March 17
Poland
1-zloty stamp depicts Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Thomas Paine, and George Washington from the 1700s, holding the American flag of 1938 (48 stars).
Catalog numbers: Scott 319; Stanley Gibbons 335
Approximate value: US$1.25 (Scott 2010).
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1938 April 5
Fiji
1 1/2-pence stamp depicts an outrigger canoe with no one sailing it; a corrected stamp in 1940 added a man in the canoe.
Catalog numbers: Scott 119; Stanley Gibbons 251
Approximate value: US$2.00 (Scott 2014).
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1938 April 5
Fiji
2- and 6-pence stamps depicts map of Fiji with two lines of longitude but only one is labelled (178); a corrected stamp was issued in 1940 with label "180".
Catalog numbers: Scott 120,125; Stanley Gibbons 253,260
Approximate value: US$16.50 (Scott 2014).
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1940 October 1
Fiji
5-pence stamp depicts blue sugar cane, corrected in 1942 to yellow-green.
Catalog numbers: Scott 123
Approximate value: US$13.00 (Scott 2014).
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1938 (month unknown)
New Caledonia
6 stamps (65-centime through 50-franc, 1938-40) depict a floatplane over New Caledonia, casting a shadow several multiples larger than the plane itself.
Catalog numbers: Scott C1-C6
Approximate value: US$8.45 (Scott 2010).
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1939 January
Spain
1-peseta stamp has the denomination abbreviated "PTS" which is plural, instead of the correct "PTA".
Catalog numbers: Scott C105
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2010).
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1940 (month unknown)
Romania
1-leu stamp with incorrect plural denomination "LEI".
Catalog numbers: Scott 507 or 537; Stanley Gibbons 1457
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1940 (month unknown)
Switzerland
5c+5c stamp depicts Gottfried Keller with year of birth 1818 in error, fixed and re-issued with correct year 1819.
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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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1942 April 15
Monaco
5- and 10-franc airmail stamps depict the shadow of a plane on the Earth way too big.
Catalog numbers: Scott C2-C3
Approximate value: US$0.70 (Scott 2010).
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1942 October 6
Norway
15- and 20-ore stamps depict author Johan Herman Wessel, with middle name misspelled "Hermann".
Catalog numbers: Scott 251-52; Stanley Gibbons 337-338
Approximate value: US$0.50 (Scott 2010).
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1942 November 21
Colombia
10-centavo stamp of the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Wisconsin has date "2. XI. 1902" instead of the correct "21. XI. 1902". A corrected stamp was issued.
Catalog numbers: Scott 495a
Approximate value: US$22.50 (Scott 2014).
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1944 September 1
Switzerland
20-centime airmail stamp depicts Swissair Fokker VII b tri-motor aircraft bearing registration number 157. Swissair tri-motor aircraft existed with registration numbers 162-66, 190, and 192-3, not 157. There was a Fokker VII a with registration number 157, but it was single-engined.
Catalog numbers: Scott C38; Stanley Gibbons 442
Approximate value: US$0.30 (Scott 2010).
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1944 October 9
France
1.50-franc stamp denominated "1.50 francs", corrected in 1945 to "1.50 franc". The original was printed in the USA, so this may just be a difference in pluralization style.
Catalog numbers: Scott 476D
Approximate value: US$0.90 (Scott 2014).
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