"Alan" wrote in message
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Rod wrote:
The first philatelic error.

The Mulready envelope,
the Angel in the top right side corner
has only one leg.


Why is that an error, perhaps she only had one leg !.

Isn't an angel an "it"?

I'm asking because no scan was proposed..., but also because of this:

"Whilst artists avoided making the Virgin and saints too attractive, so that
inappropriate thoughts would not be aroused in the beholder, no such
constraint applied to angels, who have no sex."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel

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