A chronological listing of world postage stamps depicting design errors.
1963 March 1
Afghanistan
4- and 5-poul regular stamps and 200-poul airmail stamp misspell "Journée de l'Agriculture" as "Journee d'Agriculture".
Catalog numbers: Scott 640-641,C44
Approximate value: US$1.45 (Scott 2018).
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1963 March 16
Argentina
4-peso stamp depicts three gears, but the teeth will not mesh and turn.
Catalog numbers: Scott 744
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1963 April 3
Liechtenstein
5-franc stamp depicts Prince Franz Josef II, but the same image appears on a 1962 stamp, flipped left-right; which one is correct?
Catalog numbers: Scott 238b
Approximate value: US$1.25 (Scott 2010).
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1963 June 14
Canada
$1 stamp depicts a crate being lifted, but one of the ropes for the left part of the crate should pass behind the hook; with both showing on front, what is keeping it on?
Catalog numbers: Scott 411; Stanley Gibbons 536
Approximate value: US$2.25 (Scott 2014).
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1963 July 1
United States of America
100th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
5-cent stamp depicts two soldiers battling, but the bayonets on their rifles are not the type used in the US Civil War.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1180; Stanley Gibbons 1179
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2018).
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1963 July 20
Andorra (Spanish)
70-centimo stamp depicts Anyós Meadow, but is misinscribed "AYNOS".
Catalog numbers: Scott 51; Stanley Gibbons 56
Approximate value: US$0.35 (Scott 2018).
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1963 August 6
Fiji
First South Pacific Games, Suva.
1-shilling stamp depicts two field hockey players. The left player is likely a reversed image, as the stick head is rounded on the right side, so the ball is played with the flat left side.
Catalog numbers: Scott 201
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2014).
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1963 September 16
Switzerland
50-centime stamp depicts globe (Earth) and Moon, but with different lighted areas indicating coming from different light sources (two Suns?).
Catalog numbers: Scott 432; Stanley Gibbons 685
Approximate value: US$0.40 (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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1963 September 25
Canada
5-cent stamp marks 200th anniversary (1763) of regular Quebec-Trois Rivieres-Montreal postal route, but Pedro da Sila began that route in 1693, made official in 1705.
Catalog numbers: Scott 413; Stanley Gibbons 538
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2014).
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1963 October 1
India
Birth of Annie Besant listed as 1837 instead of 1847.
Catalog numbers: Scott 377; Stanley Gibbons 471
Approximate value: US$0.50 (Scott 2009).
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1963 October 9
Poland
60-groschen stamp depicts the artwork "Love Letter" by Wladyslaw Czachorski. Does the original contain the same flaws in the clock, especially the double "XII"? As well as the "IIII" instead of "IV", double "VII", and missing "IX" and "X".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1174; Stanley Gibbons 1419
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1963 October 11
Japan
10-yen stamp of Olympic athletes, but the diver has the feet drawn backwards (the heels are on the front).
Catalog numbers: Scott 801
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1963 November 16
Belgium
1-franc stamp for birth centenary of Jules Destrée gives birth year as 1864 instead of 1863.
Catalog numbers: Scott 600
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1963 November 18
Netherlands
30-cent stamp places "LA" in the country name so close that the "L" becomes an "I".
Catalog numbers: Scott 421
Approximate value: US$0.50 (Scott 2010).
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1963 December 16
Israel
12-agorot stamp depicts a Pygoplites diacanthus fish, mislabelled "Holocanthus imperator".
Catalog numbers: Scott 249
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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