Miscuts and perforation errors

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Strange horizontal perforation.
Completely missed horizontal perforation.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



Shifted horizontal perforation.
Shifted horizontal perforation makes LOUISIANA appear on top instead of on the bottom of the stamp, resulting in a new design.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



Miscut.
This miscut transforms a 15-cent stamp into a 5-cent one.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



Shifted perforation
Is this postcard franked with 2 or 3 stamps : due to a shifted vertical perforation, it is impossible to say.


SWEDEN 1939



Shifted perforation
Shifted vertical perforation


SWEDEN 1939



Shifted perforation
Shifted horizontal perforation.


YUGOSLAVIA 1985



Shifted perforation
Shifted horizontal AND vertical perforation.


VIET NAM 1980



Shifted perforation
Shifted vertical perforation, or … was this stamp simply torn out ?


VIET NAM 1980



Shifted perforation
Due to a shifted horizontal perforation, a new stamp was created.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



Shifted perforation
Due to a shifted horizontal perforation, a new stamp was created.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



Shifted perforation
Shifted vertical AND horizontal perforation makes it impossible to use these stamps on a letter.


TANZANIA



Miscut booklet
A miscut stamp booklet gives a strange result when it is opened.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



Miscut stamp roll.
When a miscut starts at the beginning of a roll, all the stamps of course are affected.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



Incomplete perforation
Incomplete perforation in the middel of this strip of four stamps.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



Double perforation
Double vertical perforation


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



Double perforation
Double and not completely horizontal perforation.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



Useless postcard
Impossible to use this preprinted postcard with huge shifted vertical cut.


INDIA



Shifted perforation
Horizontal perforation shift : a lot of people have probably dreamed of Hitler having his head cut like that.


GERMANY 1941



Shifted cut
Preprinted postcard with double stamp, due to a larger than normal size.


INDIA



Shifted perforations
Big perforation shift, which makes it impossible to use the stamps.


TANZANIA 1986



Shifted perforations
The left stamp is about two perforations narrower than a normal stamp, due to shifted vertical perforations.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



Double perforation
Double vertical perforation at the right side of this sheet.


URUGUAY 1974



Perforation error
Double vertical perforation


UCRAINA 1912



Perforation shift
An horizontal shift in the perforation results in a complete different stamp layout.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1953



Perforation shift
An horizontal perforation shift results in a complete different stamp layout.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1957



Perforations shifts
Shifted horizontal and vertical perforation : there is almost nothing left from the original design of this stamp.


CROATIA



Shiftes perforation
Shifted vertical perforation.


CROATIA



Additional perforation
Shifted colour, and an additional vertical perforation cuts the stamp in two pieces.


RUSSIA 1927



Missing perforation
Missing vertical perforation


RUSSIA 1947



Perforation error
Missing verticalperforation


COLOMBIA 1899



Perforation error
Shifted vertical and horizontal perforation.


SLOVENIA 1919



Perforation error
Missing upper perforation


EAST KINA 1949



Perforation error
Shifted vertical perforation cuts the stamp in two pieces.


ALBANIA 1985



Perforation error
Shifted horizontal and vertical perforation. There is almost nothing left from the originaldesign of the stamp.


CROATIA



Perforation error
Shift of the horizontal perforation shows the White House above the flag.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



Perforation error
Missing perforation at the top of this sheet.


RUSSIA 1946



Perforation error
A perforation shift removes the countryname from the stamp.


EQUATORIAL GUINEA 1978



Perforation shift
Shifted vertical perforation.


YUGOSLAVIA 1980



Shifted perforation
A shifted horizontal perforation makes it impossible to remove the stamps from this sheet.


CROATIA 1942



Perforation shift
Shifted horizontal and vertical perforations.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1912



Shift
Shifted horizontal perforation.


FINLAND 1954



Shift
Shifted vertical perforation.


FRENCH WEST AFRICA 1922



Very bad stamps
Shifted vertical perforation, if we can still call it a perforation. Same stamp with missing black colour.


VIET NAM 1963



Shift
Shifted vedrtical perforation truncates the country name.


HONG KONG 1973



Shift
Shifted horizontal perforation.


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1938



Perforation
Exile stamps issued by Croatian emigrants with missing and slided perforation.


CROATIA 1934



Wrong perforation
Miscuts and bad perforations ofter occur on old stamps.


UNITED KINGDOM 1858



Wrong perforation
Miscuts and bad perforations ofter occur on old stamps.


ARGENTINA 1899



Wrong perforation
Miscuts and bad perforations ofter occur on old stamps.


PORTUGAL 1917



Wrong perforation
Miscuts and bad perforations ofter occur on old stamps.


NEW SOUTH WALES 1888



Wrong perforation
Miscuts and bad perforations ofter occur on old stamps.


SWEDEN 1920



Perforation shift
Horizontal perforation shift on a stamp issued in the Soviet zone Thüringen during the second world war.


GERMANY 1945



Missing perforations
A complete sheet with missing vertical perforations.


CROATIA 1942