Design Errors

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      An "error" is philately usually refers something that has gone wrong in the production of a stamp: the wrong or missing colors, misperforations, inversions, and things like that. Such errors are relatively rare and therefore stamps with such errors are expensive. However, there is another kind of error that is neither so rare nor so expensive. It is the design error. In the case of map stamps they include incorrect coordinates, mistakes in spelling, incorrect geography, political and historical errors, and other similar matters. This section is concerned with those errors.
     The American Topical Association includes “Design Errors”  with “ghosts” under “Oddities” in the section titled “Unplanned Varieties (EFOs)” in their publication, Elements for Thematic Exhibits.

  Afghanistan 400 Afghanistan 427-428 Afghanistan 462-463  
Afghanistan 853 Afghanistan 966a Antigua 195-198 Argentina 445 Argentina 1411
Ascension 139 Ascension 536 Australia 111-112 Australia 283 Australia 305
Australia 776-777 Austria 608 Austria 756 Azerbaijan 394. 394b Bahamas 304
Bahamas 392  Barbados 226 Barbados 246 Barbados 316-319 Belgian Congo 257
    Bermuda 148, 156    
Bermuda 924 Bolivia 820 Botswana 140 Brazil 928 Bulgaria 153
Burma 66-69 Burma 88-89 Cameroon C270 Cambodia 76a, 77 Canada 85,86
Canada 194 Canada 274 Canada 370 Canada 387 Canada 411
Canada 446 Canada 977 Canada 1145 Canada 1564 Cape Verde 286
Cayman 85 Cayman 140 Cayman 156 Cayman 189-190 Cayman 216
Cent. Afr. Rep. 14-16 Christmas Island 50 China 169 China 364-367 China 999a
China 9N105-106 Colombia 649 Colombia 726,C390-C393 Cuba 4069 Cook Islands 132
Cook Islands 423 Cook Islands 434 Costa Rica 177-178 Croatia Cuba 593
Czechoslovakia 1180 Czechoslovakia 1457 Dominican Rep. 111-119 Dominican Rep. 351-355 Dominican Rep. 381
Dominican Rep. C62 Ecuador 340   Ecuador 1138-1140 Ecuador 1141
Egypt 386 Egypt 375-377 Egypt 456 Egypt 721 Ethiopia C57-C59
Falkland Is. 110 Fiji 120 Fiji 183 Fiji 222 Fiji 1005
France 741 France 1168 France 1647 France 1848 France 2287
France 2372 France 3011 France France B96 French Morocco C26
French Polynesia C220 FSAT C109 Gambia 170 Gambia 271 GDR 346
GDR 1648 Germany 644 Germany 1353 Germany 1362 Germany 1705, 1713, B818
Germany 1898 Germany 2019 Germany 2379 Germany C50 Ghana 61
Gibralter 153 Gilbert & Ellice 79 Gilbert & Ellice 155-156 Great Britain 336 Great Britain 388
Greece 586 Grenada Gren. 1496 Guatemala 246 Guatemala 279 Guatemala C141
Guernsey 9, 18 Guin.Biss. 756,788 Haiti 450 Haiti 317 Hong Kong 427-430
Hungary 1705 Iceland B6 India 275-286 Indonesia 597-599 Iraq 517
Iran 2197 Ireland 66 Ireland 407 Ireland 1542 Italy 649-650
Italy 655 Italy 832 Italy 834a Italy 1815 Italy 2378
Ivory Coast 946 Japan 267   Japan 1644 Jersey 41, 44, 267
Jersey 151 Jersey 160 Jordan 466-470 Jordan 319-321 Kazakhstan 526
Kiribati 417 Korea 39-51 Lesotho167 Lebanon 285-286 Liberia 233
Liberia 726 Liberia 769 Libya 147-149 Macau 928a Malagasy Rep. 1062
Malaya 83 Malaysia 1-3 Mali 58 Marshall Is. 142 Mauritania C91
Mauritius 241 Mauritius 566 Mauritius 957 Mexico 282 Mexico 512
  Mexico C282 Mexico C301 Mexico C538  
Monaco 365 Monaco 565 Morocco C26 Mozambique 390 Nepal 71-83
New Hebrides 208 Netherlands 736

Netherlands 1196

Neth. Antil. 352 Neth. Antil. B32
Neth. Antil. B39-B42 Neth. Antilles B360d New Caledonia C1-C6 New Zealand 230 New Zealand 434
New Zealand 981a New Zealand 1628   Newfoundland 86 Newfoundland 145
Newfoundland 223 Newfoundland C11 New South Wales 85 Nicaragua 90-98 Nicaragua 750
Nicaragua C186-C192 Nicaragua C264 Nigeria 231 Norfolk Is. 122 Norfolk Is. 123-124
Norfolk Is. 559 North Borneo 249 North Borneo 266 North Korea 1577 Oman 163
Pakistan 108-111 Pakistan n.n. Palau 325 Palau 546 Panama 1-7
Peru 377 Peru 1362 Pitcairn Is. 33 Poland 3040 Portugal 658-661
Portugal 1115 PRC 167 PRC 999a Qatar 321-322 Reunion 60
Reunion 91-98 Reunion 116-121 Romania 3869 Russia 379 Senegal 1041
Rwanda 1-8 Ryukyu Is. 192 Salvador 500a/O351a Samoa 222 San Marino 317
Saudi Arabia 198-200 Seychelles 209 Seychelles 341 South Africa 220 South Georgia 2
Spain 434 Spain 2995 Sri Lanka 1128 State of Oman  St. Helena 201-204
Swaziland 111, 114 Sweden 902 Syria 389-390, C191 Syria 802 Thailand 296-299
Thailand 330 Togo 382 Tonga 94 Tonga 109 Turkey 728-736
Turkey 1256 Turks & Caicos 97, 111 Tuvalu 25 United Nations 205-206 United Nations 306
United States 239 United States 327 United States 650 United States 702 United States 795
United States 955 United States 1069 United States 1091 United States 1154 United States 1258
United States 1274 United States 1306 United States 2387 United States 2388 United States 2535
United States 2620a United States 2626b United States C10 United States C53 Vanuatu 478
Venezuela 681 Virgin Islands 98-101 Virgin Islands 113 Wallis & Futuna C169 Yemen 88-90
  Yugoslavia 1786   ZES 19