Isn't She Beautiful - Lady Liberty

SPAIN 1938



The American flag on the left side has a notorious error!

Below the blue rectangle it has 4 red stripes and it should be 3.
The right side flag is OK.

It looks like this stamp was issued by the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.

The American flag may be the one with the most errors - dozens are known

Alignment of stars


Modern flag in 1777?


Wrong number of stripes - in a US stamp?

No error, the 15 cent Fort McHenry flag is historically correct with 15 stars and 15 stripes.

For our Canadian friends, the Stars and Stripes started off with the thirteen stars and thirteen stripes for the original thirteen colonies. At first a star and a stripe were added each time a new state joined the federation, but that soon proved too much clutter in the stripe field. It was therefor decided to keep the thirteen stripes and settle for a new star for each additional state. And John Becker is correct, a 15 star / 15 stripe flag is historically correct and can even be flown legally to this day!

Peter

Here's an (almost) color missing EFO of the previously posted Fort McHenry Flag Stamp ... you can barely see the shadow of the first few letters in the lettering at the UL portion of the stamp:

I thought I had seen something like these around the house here but could not find them this morning. I was looking for something else this evening and came across these not a foot from me, if it was a snake would have bit me. Found in an old Modern Postage Stamp Album, Scott Stamp and Coin Company 1937 edition, you know the one with the red cover, skyscrapers and airplane all in black silhouette. Anyway they sure are colorful, who could forget seeing them...