A foreign country with the wrong stamp

In the process of issuing stamps, postal departments all over the world have seen many wrong stamps and made many little-known mistakes and jokes.

1903, the French Ministry of Post issued stamps, and the peasant woman planted with the wind violated the common sense of farming. More ironically, when the sun rises, the figure of the peasant woman naturally falls behind.

1903, Italy issued stamps to commemorate Columbus. In the picture, Columbus looks at the distance with a telescope in his hand, but the telescope reflected in the picture has not been invented yet.

19 18, the United States issued a set of stamps with the theme of biplane. However, people soon found that there was a printing error in the stamp, and the plane pattern of "Curtis Jenny -4H" in the stamp was printed backwards. Since then, this set of stamps named "Inverted Jenny" has become a precious misprinted stamp, each worth at least $500,000. Today, this set of stamps has become the top collection that philatelists in the market dream of. However, a voter in Florida mixed this expensive stamp with other stamps, pasted it on an envelope and sent it to the local election commission during the mid-term election.

It is reported that Rodstrom, a local official in charge of election affairs, accidentally discovered this "treasure" when counting votes in the late Qing Dynasty on June 7, 165438.

Rodstrom recalled that when he saw the stamp, he was attracted by its red border and blue plane pattern, and then he immediately realized what he had found. "I thought,' God, I know this stamp. I have seen this stamp before. I used to collect stamps when I was young. I clearly remember a very, very rare stamp with an inverted biplane printed on it. "

Rodstrom revealed that there are only 65,438+000 stamps on the market, which is one of the reasons why its value has doubled. A set of four such stamps sold for $3 million. Rodstrom believes that this stamp in their hands can be auctioned for $500,000.

19 19 Germany issued a set of stamps. One of the pictures is an airplane without propeller and stable tail. It is impossible for such an airplane to fly.

193 1 year, India issued seven horse-drawn stamps. The seven horses in the picture have only four legs.

1944, in order to commemorate the opening of the first transcontinental railway in Britain, the smoke emitted by the train running on the railway road in the picture is opposite to the direction of the flag flying.

1947 issue franklin roosevelt stamps to commemorate Morocco's participation in the centennial international stamp exhibition in new york. In the photo, Roosevelt has six fingers in his left hand.

195 1 year, in order to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Paris Commune, Poland issued a portrait stamp of Bolovsky, but it was painted by piano composer Genrich Dombolovsky. It was not until 1962 that Poland corrected this mistake and reissued the correct stamps.

1956, in order to promote the 5th new york International Philatelic Exhibition, Morocco issued a portrait stamp of American President Eisenhower, but turned the lapel of Eisenhower's suit jacket into a right press and a left press, that is, a woman.

1958, the Swedish post office printed a stamp with a face value of 25 lira into 12 euros, which was temporarily issued in the post office. In the process of overprinting, a set of 30 stamps was printed backwards, so it became the wrong shape and was bought by a lumberjack. After learning the news, a postal fan made up his mind to find this coupon. After many twists and turns, the lumberjack was found in the forest area of northern Sweden. A lot of things have happened. These 30 stamps have been pasted by the lumberjack and sent to his lover. Mail fans followed, rushed south, and found the girl in love. The girl kept all the love letters sent to her by the woodcutter. There is no shortage of these 30 stamps. Postal fans were overjoyed to see these treasures and spent 6000 kronor on stamps. The money is equivalent to the lumberjack's salary for three years. The unmarried couple are going to wait for another three years and save enough money before getting married. Accidentally received this income, so they advanced their wedding date.

1972 Cuba issued a set of stamps bearing the atomic icebreaker Lenin of the former Soviet Union. The picture of the ship is surrounded by Antarctic penguins and the ship is sailing in the Arctic Ocean.

1990, Chile issued a stamp with Columbus' head, which wrongly painted the great Spanish navigator as a teenager without a beard.