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 |





























































































