Three billion of the 44-cent (27p) stamps, which show a close-up of the New York, New York hotel's half-sized model, were printed before a collector spotted the error and contacted the weekly stamp news magazine 'Linn's Stamp News'.
"The image is accurate," said Roy Betts, a spokesman for the US postal service. "Just of the Vegas version, not the one in New York". The mistake is thought to be the first of its kind.
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Mr Betts said the picture was obtained from an agency. "But we love the stamp and would have chosen this photograph anyway," he said. No stamps will be withdrawn and it is possible more will be produced.
3 comments:
lol, this screw up is even better than that texas town that was using the bolivian flag instead of the texas state flag on some of it's literature.
The stamp doesn't say "New York" on it, does it? So it's not really a screw-up. It's still a photo of a landmark in the U.S.A.
And the Las Vegas one looks way less melty and horrifying.
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