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Graham Watson shop: Vintage posters
Has anyone taken a look at the Vintage Posters on Graham Watsons's
shop page (pictures not taken by GW). Is it just me or are some of the vintage posters available misprints? In most of them, the text is misspelt in some way or other: In detail: Smokers:¨Tour of the '20s - Vervaeke and Gedhold smoked tthe cigarette¨ (note the text on the page itself also has typoes, but here the poster itself seems to have ¨tthe¨ instead of ¨the¨) Sailing: ¨Four of the '30s - Racing by the sailboats at Carassonne¨ s/Four/Tour/ surely And is it not: s/Carassonne/Carcassonne/ ? The text below the picture even says Concarneau :-( Drinkers same /Four/Tour/ error s/reminescent/reminiscent/ ? Long Road: s/Four/Tour/ Mathias |
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Graham Watson shop: Vintage posters
On Sun, 16 May 2004 16:09:03 +0800, Mathias Koerber wrote:
Has anyone taken a look at the Vintage Posters on Graham Watsons's shop page (pictures not taken by GW). Oops. missed the URL: http://grahamwatson.safeshopper.com/89/cat89.htm?614 or via www.grahamwatson.com, then 'gw store', ¨posters¨, ¨vintage posters¨ Mathias |
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Graham Watson shop: Vintage posters
"Mathias Koerber" wrote in message news Has anyone taken a look at the Vintage Posters on Graham Watsons's shop page (pictures not taken by GW). Is it just me or are some of the vintage posters available misprints? In most of them, the text is misspelt in some way or other: In detail: Smokers:¨Tour of the '20s - Vervaeke and Gedhold smoked tthe cigarette¨ (note the text on the page itself also has typoes, but here the poster itself seems to have ¨tthe¨ instead of ¨the¨) Sailing: ¨Four of the '30s - Racing by the sailboats at Carassonne¨ s/Four/Tour/ surely And is it not: s/Carassonne/Carcassonne/ ? The text below the picture even says Concarneau :-( Drinkers same /Four/Tour/ error s/reminescent/reminiscent/ ? Long Road: s/Four/Tour/ Mathias I'd say that that the F in four is actually a stylized T. If you look at the Breaktime picture you can see that the F and T do look slightly different. However there do seem to be other mistakes such as the spelling of Intinmate in the Smokers picture. Maybe the posters are exact replicas of posters made by a Frenchman for an English market and the grammer she is not so correct, Oui? Marty |
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On Sun, 16 May 2004 18:15:21 +0800, Marty Wallace wrote:
I'd say that that the F in four is actually a stylized T. If you look at No, the stylized T actually does look different (the swing on the left curls up to the left of the stem, rather than crossing it to form an F, as can be seen on the Long Road in the work 'The') However there do seem to be other mistakes such as the spelling of Intinmate in the Smokers picture. Maybe the posters are exact replicas Didn't even see that. of posters made by a Frenchman for an English market and the grammer she is not so correct, Oui? So does that mean Carassonne is correct rather than Carcassonne (a mistake a French printer would likely not have made)? I rather believe these are sloppily made prints. A shame actually as the pictures are quite nice, especially the Long Road ahead one and the Sailing boat one.. And they don't look like the mistakes will ever make them valuable either.. |
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Graham Watson shop: Vintage posters
Mathias Koerber wrote:
On Sun, 16 May 2004 18:15:21 +0800, Marty Wallace wrote: I'd say that that the F in four is actually a stylized T. If you look at No, the stylized T actually does look different (the swing on the left curls up to the left of the stem, rather than crossing it to form an F, as can be seen on the Long Road in the work 'The') However there do seem to be other mistakes such as the spelling of Intinmate in the Smokers picture. Maybe the posters are exact replicas Didn't even see that. of posters made by a Frenchman for an English market and the grammer she is not so correct, Oui? So does that mean Carassonne is correct rather than Carcassonne (a mistake a French printer would likely not have made)? I rather believe these are sloppily made prints. A shame actually as the pictures are quite nice, especially the Long Road ahead one and the Sailing boat one.. And they don't look like the mistakes will ever make them valuable either.. Some mapmakers include intentional errors on their maps to detect illegal infringement. |
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Graham Watson shop: Vintage posters
Mathias Koerber wrote:
Has anyone taken a look at the Vintage Posters on Graham Watsons's shop page (pictures not taken by GW). Yup. I love that 'Smokers' print. One of my most favorite bicycle pics of all time. If it bothers you, just have a frame shop make a mat that covers the words, and enjoy the picture by itself. No worries. Regards, H. |
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