Graham Watson shop: Vintage posters

[Mathias Koerber]

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

 

[Mathias Koerber]

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

 

[Marty Wallace]

"Mathias Koerber" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]...
> 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

 

[Time Cop]

The word "intimate" is also spelled wrong on the "Smokers" poster.



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[Mathias Koerber]

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..

 

[Robert Chung]

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.

 

[Ewoud Dronkert]

On Sun, 16 May 2004 14:18:35 +0200, Robert Chung wrote:
>Some mapmakers include intentional errors on their maps to detect illegal
>infringement.

Yes. But not in the spelling of capital cities.

 

[Robert Chung]

Ewoud Dronkert wrote:
> On Sun, 16 May 2004 14:18:35 +0200, Robert Chung wrote:
>> Some mapmakers include intentional errors on their maps to detect
>> illegal infringement.
>
> Yes. But not in the spelling of capital cities.

It hasn't been established that the misspellings exist on the actual
posters rather than on the easily infringeable web images.

 

[Ewoud Dronkert]

On Sun, 16 May 2004 19:25:46 +0200, Robert Chung wrote:
>It hasn't been established that the misspellings exist on the actual
>posters rather than on the easily infringeable web images.

Ah OK.

 

[HardwareLust]

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.