Postage Stamp Design Errors
Copyright (C) 2007-2024 Ken Polsson (email: ken@kpolsson.com)


A chronological listing of world postage stamps depicting design errors.
1852-1902 1903-1927 1928-1935 1936-1944 1945-1947 1948-1950 1951-1955 1956-1957 1958-1960
1961-1962 1963 1964 1965-1966 1967-1968 1969 1970-1971 1972-1973 1974-1975
1976-1977 1978-1980 1981-1983 1984-1985 1986-1987 1988-1989 1990-1992 1993-1994 1995-1996
1997-2000 2001-2006 2007-2008 2009-2024

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

1852-1902 1903-1927 1928-1935 1936-1944 1945-1947 1948-1950 1951-1955 1956-1957 1958-1960
1961-1962 1963 1964 1965-1966 1967-1968 1969 1970-1971 1972-1973 1974-1975
1976-1977 1978-1980 1981-1983 1984-1985 1986-1987 1988-1989 1990-1992 1993-1994 1995-1996
1997-2000 2001-2006 2007-2008 2009-2024

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