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4 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

The title on one book in the bottom left corner is misspelled.  Amazing to think that at one time all our laws fit in a single volume.

 

 

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How is it misspelled? Am I missing something?

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6 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE UNITED SATES 

Aha!!! STATES!!! Good pickup!!;)

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The book in question is in the lower right corner of the picture, and the misspelled word is in the lower right corner of the book.

That may be what is confusing. B)

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1 minute ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said:

The book in question is in the lower right corner of the picture, and the misspelled word is in the lower right corner of the book.

That may be what is confusing. B)

But it’s still not RIGHT.    :ph34r:

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6 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

But it’s still not RIGHT.    :ph34r:

Therefore,  nothing more LEFT to say about this. 

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I looked at that ten times and all that my mind could see was STATES! 

 

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Until Marshal Mo Hare pointed it out, I was not seeing SATES! :wacko::blink:

 

 

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There was a reprint of the book in question in our high school library. Well, one of the high schools I went to. I recall the librarian making a little speech about the misspelling, but I do not recall why it occurred and why the printer left it in the reprint. Accuracy perhaps?

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47 minutes ago, Dutch Wheeler said:

I looked at that ten times and all that my mind could see was STATES! 

 

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Until Marshal Mo Hare pointed it out, I was not seeing SATES! :wacko::blink:

 

 

Me too.  I could have looked at it a hundred times and still read STATES.

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Wow! How could such an error be made in the first place?

 

Turns out it was on purpose (I just learned this):

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/07/a-george-washington-portrait-with-a-typo/375318/

 

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The original, called the "Lansdowne Portrait," was named for the Marquise of Lansdowne, who, ironically, was the former British prime minister and the first owner of the portrait. The painting of the celebrity president was wildly popular, so Stuart painted several reproductions, one of which was bought by the U.S. government. Misspelling "the United States" was Stuart's way of differentiating the copies of the portrait, which today hang in locations like the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts MuseumYou can see the original Lansdowne Portrait—replete with a properly spelled "United States" on the book binding for the spelling-anxious—at the Smithsonian Museum’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

 

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30 minutes ago, Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 said:

Me too.  I could have looked at it a hundred times and still read STATES.

Same here! Amazing what your eyes don’t pick up!

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1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Same here! Amazing what your eyes don’t pick up!

 

More like it is amazing what blanks your mind fills in!

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Well, maybe that is what is called an intentional mistake for a copy, so that it would not be confused for the real thing.  Enlarge this and you can see “States”

 

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/george-washington-lansdowne-portrait/UQGc8QlQ1ML0kA?hl=en&avm=2

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