US Postal Service Uses Wrong Lady to Create Lady Liberty Stamp

[Octafish]

When clip-art is win...



US Postal Service Lady Liberty Stamp Wrong Lady

By Daphne Livingston on April 18th, 2011
Long Island Press

The US Postal Service recently issued a new stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty in New York City, or at least that’s what it appeared to be until a magazine, Linn’s Stamp News, did some investigative work and found that the Lady Liberty featured in the stamp was not the Lady Liberty in New York but a replica Lady Liberty in Las Vegas.

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Ted Rall does a nice job of putting things in perspective...

Stamped Out: The Statue of Liberty Stamp Error and the End of America

by Ted Rall
Published on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 by CommonDreams.org

NEW YORK--It may seem like a minor thing. Objectively it is a minor thing. But the Great Statue of Liberty Stamp Screw-up of 2011 presents a picture-perfect portrait of a society in the midst of collapse.

You can tell a lot about the state of a country from its stamps and its currency. At a nation's peak its graphic iconography tends to be striking, elegant and original. As it begins to wane abstraction gives way to self-caricature, innovative design to self-parody, high art to kitsch.

Look at U.S. stamps and paper money from 100 or 50 or even 30 years ago and you'll see my point. Quarters were nearly sterling silver; now they're mystery metal (nickel-copper-zinc alloy).

America: we're not what we used to be.

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Toto, we aren't even in Bizzaro Kansas.

[EFerrari]

1. LOL. America: The Self Parody.

:)

[Kingofalldems]

2. Those stamps will be worth something later on

[jdlh8894]

3. Doubt it.

They weren't misprinted or struck.
Some fool just picked a photo out of many that were submitted.
Sorry, I have no problem w/this.

[woodsprite]

4. I thought maybe they were trying to usher in the era of "Trump". n/t