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A chronological listing of world postage stamps depicting design errors.
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1981 February 18
Australia
60-cent stamp depicts billiards player Walter Lindrum with complete set of fingers on his right hand, even though he lost the top of his index finger in an accident.
Catalog numbers: Scott 775
Approximate value: US$1.10 (Scott 2010).
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1981 March 25
Great Britain
14-pence stamp depicts a dog moving both left feet forward at same time, when a real dog moves a front foot with the opposite rear foot at the same time when walking.
Catalog numbers: Scott 937
Approximate value: US$0.30 (Scott 2010).
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1981 March 25
Poland
6.50-zloty stamp depicts pilot Larry Newman written as "P. Newman".
Catalog numbers: Scott 2438; Stanley Gibbons 2726
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2010).
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1981 May 20
Australia
22-cent stamp depicts diggers en route to deposit gold with incorrect caption "On route".
Catalog numbers: Scott 783
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2010).
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1981 May 21
United States of America
18-cent stamp depicts astronaut standing on the Moon, showing two white spheres in space; what are they?
Catalog numbers: Scott 1912; Stanley Gibbons 1886
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2018).
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1981 May 22
Italy
600-lire stamp depicts Saint Rita da Cascia, but with incorrect death year 1447 instead of 1457.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1457; Stanley Gibbons 1713
Approximate value: US$0.60 (Scott 2009).
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1981 August 1
Japan
60-yen stamp depicts a useless and dangerous electrical cable: plug it in and get a shock from the opposite end, or plug it in two outlets and it will probably melt and burn, or trip the safety breaker.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1463
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1981 November 16
Antigua and Barbuda
30-cent stamp depicts painting Virgin and Child by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, misspelled "Carolfeld".
Catalog numbers: Scott 639
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1981 December 7
Mali
200-franc stamp depicts Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin and a microscopic image of bacteria; the image is purple when it should be red resulting from the acid-fast staining procedure.
Catalog numbers: Scott 441
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1982 March 31
Cuba
20-centavo stamp depicts painting Twilight by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, with surname misspelled "Bougueran".
Catalog numbers: Scott 2513; Stanley Gibbons 2819
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2010).
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1982 May 31
Cuba
9-centavo stamp depicts painting Landscape by Jean-Baptiste Pillement, with surname misspelled "Piliment".
Catalog numbers: Scott 2512; Stanley Gibbons 2818
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1982 June 7
Cuba
PHILEXFRANCE '82 philatelic exposition.
1-peso postage stamp depicts a ship with the wind blowing the sails forward (left) but the four flags backwards (right).
Catalog numbers: Scott 2516
Approximate value: US$1.60 (Scott 2010).
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1982 November 9
Cayman Islands
3-cent and 20-cent stamps for the 150th anniversary of representative government depict red diagonals on Union Jack on Cayman Islands flag incorrectly.
Catalog numbers: Scott 498,500
Approximate value: US$0.65 (Scott 2014).
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1983 January 15
Central African Republic
1500-franc stamp depicts chess players Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian, with captions reversed, and misspelling "PETROSSIAN".
Catalog numbers: Scott 582B
Approximate value: US$10 (Scott 2014).
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1983 March 14
Canada
$2 stamp for Commonwealth Day depicts a map of the world, omitting Antarctica.
Catalog numbers: Scott 977
Approximate value: US$3.75 (Scott 2014).
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1983 May 2
Italy
500-lira stamp is supposed to depict Archimedes (correct as "Archimede" in Italian) but depicts Archidamos III, a king of Sparta.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1559
Approximate value: US$0.40 (Scott 2010).
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1983 July 11
Lesotho
6-lisente stamp depicts a Lesotho Airways Do 128-6 plane, with incorrect caption "Dornier 228".
Catalog numbers: Scott 407a
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1983 August 26
Syria
180-p stamp commemorates Namibia Day, but misspells the name as "NAMBIA".
Catalog numbers: Scott 986; Stanley Gibbons 1557
Approximate value: US$0.75 (Scott 2010).
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1983 October 8
Laos
6-kip stamp depicts Charcot and his ship, but his name is incorrectly inscribed "Cabot".
Catalog numbers: Scott 492
Approximate value: US$1.50 (Scott 2009).
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1983 October 8
United States of America
20-cent stamp depicts a "Bobtail" horsecar, but this horse definately has a full tail, not cut short to be called "bobtail".
Catalog numbers: Scott 2061
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2018).
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1983 October 21
Oanama
Freedom fof Worship.
17-cent stamp is incorrectly inscribed \"?\" instead of \"?\".
Catalog numbers: Scott 637
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2009).
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1983 October 31
Penrhyn
36-, 48-, 60-, 96-cent and $1.32 stamps all omit the "D" in "ISLANDS". A corrected set is issued in 1984.
Catalog numbers: Scott 255-59
Approximate value: US$12.50 (Scott 2010).
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1983 November 14
Bangladesh
10-t stamp depicting Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, with overprint "Nov. '33" instead of "Nov. '83". The error was quickly corrected.
Catalog numbers: Scott 228B
Approximate value: US$7.75 (Scott 2010).
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