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jfengeltoday at 1:37 PM2 repliesview on HN

The US managed to issue a stamp with clearly the wrong Statue of Liberty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty_Forever_stam...

Which presumably everyone in the design process should have recognized, if not practically everyone in the world.

The moral being, uh, it's weird how blind people can be when they're not looking for it.


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zimpenfishtoday at 2:24 PM

To be fair, if I'm reading that right, the difference is "a small light patch on the middle spike"?[0] I can see people missing that easily enough!

[0] Absent contextual cues about height, location, etc., which aren't on the stamp

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patrickmcnamaratoday at 1:41 PM

Wow, the sculptor got 3.5 million USD for copyright infringement from his copycat statue.

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