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The Mystery of the Printed Stones
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Date: 
Sun, 17 Sep 2000 01:41:25 GMT
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I was looking through an old Brick Kicks magazine from 1993 and this tower
caught my eye, so I thought I'd reproduce it, or something based on it.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=14703

Upon closer examination, I discovered that the printing on the castle walls was
reversed left-to-right.  I thought the photo had simply been reversed before
printing in the magazine, until I looked at the printed corners: on them, the
stones are actually upside-down!  The pieces aren't upside-down, since you can
see the notches in the bottom on the upper ones.  (You can see the real piece
on the bottom half of http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/6000/6074/6074-10.html).

So are these special corners only available to the master builders?  Were they
indeed released in a set?  Or was the picture doctored before publishing?  (And
if the last, why on earth would they do that?)  Anyway, found it intriguing and
thought I'd share.

Heather, Mistress of Useless Trivia
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Heather Patey
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Pirate Wench / Brick Detective



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(...) w/ window and brick-pattern on them as well. One of them (seen at top of tower) is just reversed right-to-left. The second (seen at lower right of tower) is not only reversed right-to-left, but is actually MISSING a section of stones! The two (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.castle)

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