Errors on Stamps, Coins, Collectors' cards,etc

Stamp FUJEIRA 1971 Nov. 15th - 3X- at Olympic Games?

MI 1076

YV 122 P
Stamp FUJEIRA 1971 OG Munich - wrong rigger design
Stamp GBR 1986 July 15th - A bowside rower with an oar showing a red sleeve?
Stamp GBR 1986 July 15th - Commonwealth Games Edinburgh

               MI 1077

              SC 1150

              SG 1329

              YV 1232

       Red sleeve on bow side?
Stamp GEQ 1978 Jan. 25th OG Moscow (perforated & imperforated)

       MI 1301

       SC 7841

       YV 159-B

MI A1301

The ROWING regatta took place at Moscow - not at Tallinn where the SAILING competitions were held.

White vest with red hoop and black- red-golden blades are the colours of GER. This nation boycotted the Moscow Games 1980.

So the renewal of the fight for gold in the M1X between Karppinen (FIN) and Kolbe (GER) had to be postponed till Los Angeles 1984.
Stamp GEQ 1978 Jan. 25th OG Moscow SS (perforated & imperforated) with Olympic pictogram No. 4

       MI SS 289

       SC 7847

       SC 7848

The Olympic rowing regatta took place at Moscow - only the sailing competitions were

held at Tallin
Stamp GRE 1983 Apr. 28th

        MI 1515

        SC 1454

        SG 1619

        YV 1493

Where are the riggers?
Stamp NIG 2000 July 27th OG Sydney - W8X+ at Olympic Games?

The inscription "Canoe-kayak" is incorrect.

         It should be "Aviron feminin à 8"

       MI 1792

       SC 1052p

Stamp NIG 2013 Apr. 15th - OG London 2012 - M1X competitor Hamadou Djibo Issaka (NIG)

Hamadou Djibo Issaka (NIG) is not anOlympic Rowing champion

as the headline in both souvenir sheets suggests.On the contrary

- he came last in a field of 33 competitors, 300 mbehind the

second-slowest sculler in this event. He had been given awild-card

entry "to strengthen the principle of universal representation".

Whereas the media and the spectators celebrated the performance

of the 35-years-old athlete who was a novice with only three months

of training, Sir Steven Redgrave - Rowing legend with five gold medals

from five consecutive Olympic regattas - claimed he should not have

been allowed into the competition at the expense of better scullers.

SC 1195

MI 2267

YV 1881

MI 2268

YV 1882

MI 2269

YV 1883

MI 2270

YV 1884

MI SS 194

YV BF 177

stamp nig 2013 e og london 2012 m1x competitor hamadou djibo issaka nig

Stamp ROU 1984 July 2nd - OG Los Angeles

       MI 4059

       SC 3203

       YV 3516

         Boat much too deep in the water
Stamp ROU 1984 May 25th - OG Los Angeles

       MI 4046

       SC 3188

       YV 3512

Members of the crew sitting too close impeding each other

Stamp ROU 2024 July 26th SS OG Paris (W8+)

Rowing without riggers?

Women's Eight final at the Olympic

Regatta Paris 2024 (Aug. 3rd)

Gold medal: ROU 5:54,39

Silver medal: CAN 5:58,84

Brnze medal: GBR 5:59,51

The stamp designer's dream came true

Stamp TAN 2022 (unauthorized issue) - Peter-Michael Kolbe (GER)

P.-M. Kolbe won the M1X silver medal at OG 1976 Montreal, 1984 Los Angeles, and 1988 Seoul. He did not start at OG Moscow 1980 as Germany boycotted the Games for political reasons. He is a five time M1X world champion (1975, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1986).

Stamp TOG 1980 Febr. 29th SS OG Moscow (perforated & imperforated)

The Olympic rowing regatta 1980 took place

at Moscow, not at Tallinn where the sailing

contests were held

MI SS 155 A

MI SS 155 B

Photo from book °Montreal 1976° by H.

Rosendahl, published by Corvus Verlag 1976, page 97

The decisive moment in the M1X final at OG Montreal 1976:

The favourite P. M. Kolbe (GER) in the foreground

is no longer able to defend his leading position against

P. Karppinen (FIN) and has to rest content with the silver medal.

Stamp TOG 1984 Oct. 15th SS - OG Los Angeles: NZL M8+ crew, gold medal winner OG Munich 1972

MI SS 247 (stamp MI 1786)

SC C499

NZL crews wear black singlets!

Just a small wave and the boat is waterlogged!

NZL: Tony Hurt, Wybo Veldman, Dick Joyce,

John Hunter, Lindsay Wilson, Athol Earl, Trevor

Coker, Gary Robertson, cox Simon Dickie
Stamp TPE 2003 Oct. 28th Tourism - 7X+ ?

MI 2899

SC 3514
Stamp UGA 1985 Aug. 21st - Gold Medalists OG Los Angeles 1984 - with imprint °Gold Medalist West Germany°

Error: The M8+ gold medal was won by CAN -

no West German M8+ entered the competition at all!

MI 443

SC 461

Stamp VOL (now BUR) 1977 July 4th OG Montreal SS with overprint °Winner 1976 Frank and Alf Hansen NOR° - The Hansen brothers won the M2X final, depicted is a M2-

MI SS 45

SC C247

large perforations

YV BF 6A

MI SS 45

SC C247

small perforations

The miniature sheet with black

overprint was not valid for postage.

The design shows a sweep oar

race whereas Frank & Alf Hansen

(NOR) won the M2X gold medal.

Stamp YEM 1980 - wrong rigger design
Stamp YEM 1980 May 1st SS

       MI SS 201

       SC C58a

                 Wrong rigger design

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