Errors on Stamps, Coins, Collectors' cards,etc

Errors on Stamps, Coins, Collectors' cards,etc

Beer mat BEL - Stella Artois - Olympic Games Mexico (2- with wrong inscription: Double Scull)
Cachet AUS 1991 WRC Vienna

The cachet depicts a 4X+, but there is no event for

this class of boat at World Rowing Championships.
CC AUS 1964 MAC ROBERTSON'S quiz card - Mervyn Wood (AUS), Olympic M1X champion OG London 1948, M1X silver medal winner OG Helsinki 1952

      The answer is wrong:

      M. Wood won 1948 (London)

   and came second 1952 (Helsinki)
CC ESP 1964 NESTLE °Los Juegos Olimpicos 1896-1964° cromo No. 230 OG Tokyo - Oleg Tiurin & Boris Dobrovski (URS), M2X gold medal winners (designer's error M2- instead of M2X)

Gold medal: URS 7:10,66

Silver medal: USA 7:13,16

Bronze medal: TCH 7:14,23
CC FRA BISCOTTES, ROTIES °DOR° No. 77

Where are the riggers?
CC FRA CHOCOLAT DE L'ABBAYE D'IGNY Chromo °Course d'Oxford et Cambridge sur la Tamise°

The Boat Race is a sweep oar race - this illustration shows three 8X+!
CC GBR 1958 EWBANKS Ltd. °Sport and Games No. 15 ROWING°

Sculler cannot stretch his legs!

CC GDR 1957 OG Melbourne - M2- silver medal winners Igor Buldakov & Viktor Ivanov (URS), M2- European champions 1953, 1955 and 1956

The explanation on the back is wrong: It was **Viatcheslav** Ivanov who won the single sculls event whereas the M2- sliver medal was won by **Viktor** Ivanov - an incidental uniformity of surnames
	The German text indicates that Vladimir Ivanov won the M1X gold medal and the M2- silver medal

CC GER 1932 BERGMANN CIGARETTES - °Olympia-Sieger 1932° album 3 No. 6 with incorrect text on back about a silver medal for the German crew

The German M4+ won the gold medal, not the silver medal.

It was the German M4- crew who came second in the final.
CC GER KANT-CACAO- & CHOCOLADENFABRIK WITTENBERG series 283 °Ruderei und Regatten° No. 5 - Oxford - Cambridge

"Regatta in Henley" is wrong.

The Oxford-Cambridge Boat

Race course is in London on

the Thames (Putney to Chiswick)
CC ITA 1972 SAN CARLO OG Munich with pictogram (silk on cardboard)

Monaco 72? Munich 72!
CC SUI 1978 EDITIONS RENCONTRE °Sculling - Oxford and Cambridge°

"Sculling" means competing in single (1X), double (2X) or quadruble (4X) sculls - the correct term for the Boat Race is "Rowing"
Cinderella URS "Krasny Oktyabr (= Red October)"

"Red October" was a Russian

confectionary manufacturer

Sculler cannot stretch his legs
Coin BEN 1999 - OG Sydney - 1000 Francs CFA (silver PP Piefort 40,0 g) - mintage 100 only

8X+ at Olympic Games?
Coin BEN 1999 - OG Sydney 2000 - 200 Francs CFA (Cu-Ni)

8X+ at Olympic Games?
Coin MAW 2003 - OG Athens 2004 - 10 Kwacha (silver 999 PP 19,74 g) - 500 issued

The coin shows a M2X - not a "Rowing Pair"!
Illustrated card CRO 2012 OG London - M4X silver medal win for CRO

TIllustrated is a M4- race during the start strokes -

wrong type of boat on the photo!
Illustrated cover KOR 1988 OG Seoul with corresponding stamp and PM - M4+ bronze medal win for GER

The illustration shows the crew in national jerseys of GDR
Matchbox label SWE - Westerviks Taendsticksfabriks

The drawing of the single sculls

is incorrect: The riggers are fixed

far too much towards the bow!
MC GER 1992 (Photo of M8+ GDR at WRC Duisburg 1983)

The GDR M8+ crew won the silver medal

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