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<p>[QUOTE="brassnautilus, post: 2372264, member: 74300"]i happened to think those were errors of the die cutter. They scaled the design wrong, so instead of abandoning the die they just ignored the fact that the graphics would run out of the boarder.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is there any specific record that tells us the die cutters were also designers (artists)? Why people always assumed those were the same person? To me they are complete different professions, one takes an artist, the other an engineer. There are very few people that could do both, like Leonardo da vinci.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="brassnautilus, post: 2372264, member: 74300"]i happened to think those were errors of the die cutter. They scaled the design wrong, so instead of abandoning the die they just ignored the fact that the graphics would run out of the boarder. Is there any specific record that tells us the die cutters were also designers (artists)? Why people always assumed those were the same person? To me they are complete different professions, one takes an artist, the other an engineer. There are very few people that could do both, like Leonardo da vinci.[/QUOTE]
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