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A chronological listing of world postage stamps depicting design errors.
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1990 January 1
French Southern and Antarctic Territories
7.30-franc airmail stamp depicts Pig Island and latitude line labelled 45o 05'; the latitude line should be labelled 46o 05'.
Catalog numbers: Scott C109
Approximate value: US$2.40 (Scott 2014).
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1990 January 5
China (People's Republic)
8-feb stamp depicts a horse with three rear legs and one front leg.
Catalog numbers: Scott 2258
Approximate value: US$0.30 (Scott 2014).
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1990 February 15
Maldives
18-rufiyaa depicts Johann von Taxis, but incorrectly inscribed as "Franz von Taxis".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1381
Approximate value: US$7.00 (Scott 2018).
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1990 February 15
USSR
20-kopek stamp depicts Great Britain 1840 1-penny stamp with invalid corner letters "TP", as highest letters used were "TL"; a corrected stamp with "TF" was issued;
35-kopek stamp depicts Great Britain 1840 1-penny stamp with invalid corner letters "VK"; a corrected stamp with "AH" was issued.
Catalog numbers: Scott 5875,5878
Approximate value: US$1.20 (Scott 2010).
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1990 March 20
Tanzania
20-shilling stamp depicts Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse in Herbie the Love Bug, except Herbie is misspelled "HERBY".
Catalog numbers: Scott 570; Stanley Gibbons 771
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1990 May 3
Ireland
30-pence stamp depicts the General Post Office in Dublin, but the statue is holding a javelin in the opposite hand, so perhaps the image is reversed.
Catalog numbers: Scott 805
Approximate value: US$1 (Scott 2010).
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1990 August 6
Uganda
150th anniversary of the first postage stamp.
100-shilling stamp depicts Baden 1851 9-kreuzer stamp, but the Uganda stamp indicates the country as "Germany". The German empire did not exist until 1871, so the correct identification should be simply "Baden".
Catalog numbers: Scott 791; Stanley Gibbons 833
Approximate value: US$1.00 (Scott 2010).
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1990 August 24
Cuba
50-centavo postage stamp depicts the Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae bird, misspelled as "Prostemadera novaeseelandiae".
Catalog numbers: Scott 3246
Approximate value: US$0.55 (Scott 2010).
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1990 August 30
Bulgaria
5-stotinki postage stamp depicts an Airbus A310 aircraft (3 side doors), labelled "A300".
25-stotinki postage stamp depicts the "CONCORDE" but looking much different from the actual Concorde.
Catalog numbers: Scott 3557,3559; Stanley Gibbons 3705,3707
Approximate value: US$0.45 (Scott 2010).
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1990 October 10
China (People's Republic)
20-fen stamp depicts chemical production process of ammoniak, but incorrectly labels "CH2" instead of "CO2".
Catalog numbers: Scott 2303
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2014).
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1990 October 31
Samoa
55-sene stamp depicts Correggio's painting The School of Love but is erroneously captioned "Madonna of the Basket".
Catalog numbers: Scott 783; Stanley Gibbons 854
Approximate value: US$5.75 (Scott 2010).
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1991 March 11
Maldives
50-laree stamp shows the Olympic rings upside down.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1506
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2018).
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1991 April
Hungary
30-forint stamp depicts the Cassini-Huygens space probe, misspelled as "CASSINI-HUGHES".
Catalog numbers: Scott 3287
Approximate value: US$6 (Scott 2010).
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1991 June 30
Laos
Espamer '91, Buenos Aires.
32-kip stamp depicts a Pacific 231 train, but stamp omits usual denomination and country in Latin characters, like the other five stamps of the set.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1039
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2009).
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1991 July 15
Niger
85-franc stamp depicts Anatoli Karpov with caption misspelled "Kaprov".
Catalog numbers: Scott 839A; Stanley Gibbons 1236
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1991 August 8
United States of America
19-cent stamp depicts fishing boat tied to pier with two loops of rope. The image was corrected to one loop of rope in 1994.
Catalog numbers: Scott 2529; Stanley Gibbons 2600
Approximate value: US$0.25 (Scott 2018).
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1991 December 2
Maldives
10-rufiyaa stamp depicts the Gaudy commodore butterfly, but incorrectly inscribed "Guady".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1570
Approximate value: US$2.50 (Scott 2018).
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1991 December 28
Maldives
5-rufiyaa stamp depicts the 1951 Ferrari Aspirata race car, incorrectly inscribed "Aspirarta".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1594c
Approximate value: US$2.00 (Scott 2018).
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1992 January 27
Albania
1.80-lek postage stamp depicts a Tupolev TU-144 aircraft, erroneously labelled "Tu-114". 2.40-lek postage stamp depicts a Dornier 31E aircraft, erroneously labelled "Dernier".
Catalog numbers: Scott 2393-2994; Stanley Gibbons 2510-2511
Approximate value: US$1.85 (Scott 2018).
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1992 April 8
Gambia
12-dalasy stamp depicts Disney's Goofy character at Chicago's Adler Planetarium, misspelled "ALDER".
Catalog numbers: Scott 1220
Approximate value: US$6 (Scott 2010).
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1992 April 15
Maldives
15-rufiyaa stamp depicts Walt Disney's Goofy in Chicago's Field Museum, wrongly captioned the Museum of Science and Industry.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1671
Approximate value: US$4.75 (Scott 2010).
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1992 April 21
Dominica
$3 stamp depicts painting The Denial of Saint Peter by Hendrick ter Brugghen, but the image is flipped left-right.
Catalog numbers: Scott 1446
Approximate value: US$2.75 (Scott 2010).
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1992 July 31
Croatia
500th anniversary of discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
30-dinar postage stamp depicts a sailing ship being blown by the wind to the right, but the flag is somehow being blown to the left.
Catalog numbers: Scott 134
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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1992 September 18
Cuba
500th anniversary of discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
10-centavo postage stamp depicts a sailing ship being blown left, but the flags being blown right.
Catalog numbers: Scott 3442
Approximate value: US$0.20 (Scott 2010).
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