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Wallis and Futuna C169
The stamp was issued to mark
the World Columbian Stamp Exposition in Chicago in 1992. It shows
Columbus holding a telescope in front of a map of the west Indies. However, the
telescope was invented by Galileo Galilei in 1610, over 100 years
after Columbus. The first globe was made by Martin Behaim in 1492, but
it is doubtful that Columbus would have ever seen it.
The stamp is based on a painting in the Galleria di
Palazzo Rosso, in Genoa.
An error of another sort also connected with the stamp
appears in The Carto-Philatelist for December 1992, where, on
pages 135 & 137 the stamp is given the Scott Catalog Number 428. The
correct number is C169.
Bulgaria 153
With four other stamps
this stamp was intended to be issued in 1915 to commemorate the
liberation of Macedonia. However, they were not put in use until 1921. By the
time the stamps were issued part of Bulgaria had been given to
Yugoslavia. Tsar Ferdinand (1915-1918) is pictured in profile in front
of a map of Bulgaria with Macedonia identified below and Dobruja
above.
Italy 1815
In 1990 Italy issued a stamp commemorating
the centenary of the Società Dante Alighieri. The design has a
portrait of Dante, an open book, possibly representing the Divina
Commedia, and a globe. Dante lived from 1265 to 1321; the earliest
globe was made by Martin Behaim in 1492, nearly two hundred years
later. I do not know what connection the globe has with Dante, so at
this point it appears to be an error.
Also, the globe shows Europe and Asia, the Antarctic
and Australia. Apart from Europe the maps of the continents reflect
discoveries much later than Dante, and further, the northwestern part
of Asia is misshapen, and the Antarctic continent is too far North.
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