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On 24/8/2023 at 4:04 PM, airfixfan said:

1916 of course as nothing happened that year!

The real life one was dated 1916, but an enamel, not cast from old Chinese bed irons in a backyard furnace.

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On 24/8/2023 at 1:45 PM, WRENNEIRE said:

 

Maybe if the (1) was (I) I might have been convinced

 

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The 'apple for scale' is worth more than the junk sign.

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20 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Something very dodgy going on with Cork and Bandon signs 

 

The guy who “purchased” the last one now has one up for sale 

 

Most likely the same sign with a clean up and a lick of paint on the letters. The oil-like stains under the O and T in 'Notice' seem to be present (but much fainter) in the picture of the sign from Sept 20 too. I suppose he may be trying to turn a quick profit???

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49 minutes ago, Broithe said:

There was a 

G S W R

Anybody Leaving

This Gate Open Is

Lialbe To A Fine

Of Forty Shillings.

 sign at the boot sale in Stafford on Sunday.

 

I wondered if the misspelling of 'liable' would make it a lot more valuable, perhaps..?

You forgot the two holes drilled in these positions;

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15 hours ago, Killian Keane said:

You forgot the two holes drilled in these positions;

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The spelling gaffe is proof the maker's first language is not English. The real railway back in the day would never allow signage intended for the public carry an error like that!

The actual text ran

"GS&WR

Notice

Any person leaving this gate open is liable to a penalty of forty shillings."

The holes are often staggered like that on the real notices, depends on what sort of gate they intended to affix it to.

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I still recall the grammatical advice that our university lecturer handed out in the 80s - he was the son of a Polish army officer and had been educated in a secret Warsaw school during the Nazi years. Spoke and wrote English with precision! And it’s native speakers who use ‘draw’ when they mean ‘drawer’ and ‘brought’ when they mean ‘bought’. And as for ‘should of’ instead of ‘should have’…….

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Here's a crude effort that I came across on Done Deal today. Only €30 and the seller was not making any claims for its authenticity. Vaguely similar to one that used to be adjacent to the road overbridge at Claremorris station. It's a long time since I last saw that sign and I think that it has disappeared in the intervening years but I doubt it had as many spelling mistakes. 

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