Postage Stamp Design Errors

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A listing of postage stamps of Germany depicting design errors.

1902 (month unknown)

Germany

3-pfennig stamp shows "DFUTSCHES" instead of "DEUTSCHES".

Catalog numbers: Scott 66a

Approximate value: US$9.75.

1921 (month unknown)

Germany

5-pfennig (maybe other values too?) stamp with caption including short "s", later corrected to be a long "s" (looks like "f").

Catalog numbers: Scott 137

Approximate value: US$0.20.

1934 November 5

Germany

3 + 2-pfennig semi-postal stamp depicts a businessman holding a cordless telephone.

Catalog numbers: Scott B59

Approximate value: US$0.75.

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 shuold be on left side).

Catalog numbers: Scott B178

Approximate value: US$0.45.

1947 (month unknown)

Germany

2-pfennig stamp depicts the Sun's rays in the background, but one the rays past the shovel handle does not exist on the other side.

Catalog numbers: Scott 557

Approximate value: US$0.20.

1956 July 20

Germany

10-pfennig and 20-pfennig stamps depict composer Robert Schumann with composition by Franz Schubert in the background. Corrected versions were released three months later.

Catalog numbers: Scott 295-96

Approximate value: US$1.15.

1961 October 2

Germany

20 + 10-pfennig semi-postal stamp depicts scene from "Hansel and Gretal"; the child has 5 fingers per hand, but the old woman has four fingers;
From 7+3- through 40+20-pfennig stamps, the girl's apron goes from two red lines to one, and her dress goes from green stripes to blue.

Catalog numbers: Scott B376-B379

Approximate value: US$1.60.

1963 September 23

Germany

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.

1964 June 26

Germany

70-pfennig stamp depicts women in agriculture, but from the overlap of the coat (should be right over left for women), the image must be reversed left-right.

Catalog numbers: Scott 705

Approximate value: US$0.20.

1965 May 5

Germany

60-pfennig stamp depicts Yevgeny Khaldei's photo of Russian soldiers raising the Soviet Union flag on the German Reichstag, but the image is reversed left-right.

Catalog numbers: Scott 767

Approximate value: US$1.40.

1965 June 25

Germany

15-pfennig stamp depicts a yellow bus that must have been printed facing the wrong direction, as Germany drove on the right-hand side in 1965, so this bus would have let passengers out in the middle of the road;
70-pfennig stamp depicts flags and sails of ship blown in opposite directions.

Catalog numbers: Scott 921,925

Approximate value: US$0.50.

1965 July 28

Germany

20-pfennig stamp depicts Stuttgart television tower, with radio waves eminating from the restaurant rather than the top of the aerial.

Catalog numbers: Scott 932

Approximate value: US$0.20.

1969 October 2

Germany

30- + 15-pfennig semi-postal stamp depicts a bird seller, with bird drawn on outside of one cage.

Catalog numbers: Scott B452

Approximate value: US$0.30.

1969 October 6

Germany

10-pfennig stamp depicts the television tower and restaurant/observation deck, with the radio waves eminating from the restaurant, rather than the top of the aerial.

Catalog numbers: Scott 1142

Approximate value: US$0.20.

1970 May 13

Germany

10-pfennig stamp adds an extra "A" to "international", resulting in "INTERNATIAONAL".

Catalog numbers: Scott 1204

Approximate value: US$0.50.

1973 February 19

Germany

40-pfennig stamp commemorates the 500th anniversary of Copernicus, with a drawing of part of the solar system that has an extra planet in the same orbit as the Earth.

Catalog numbers: Scott 1104

Approximate value: US$0.30.

1975 January 15

Germany