APPRENTICES ERROR by Wryter
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We don't know who he was, or what he felt like on the day at work when he was asked to do the letters in the pattern making mold for the door that would be part of the clean out & inspection entrance on the chimney. We don't know if it was done on a Monday, perhaps after a weekend bout at the local pubs, his thinking and mood perhaps a bit to carefree, his mind on the lovely bar maid he had seen. Perhaps it was done on a Friday, late afternoon, perhaps a last minute rush order, that he felt was infringing on his weekend time and spent less on seeing that lovely bar maid.
What ever the reason it will never be know as the error of the apprentice foundry boy and his fleeting romance with the lovely bar maid are still evident 110 years later. One wonders if the lad kept his job and ended up with that lovely bar maid who was able to focus his thinking on her and not on the job at hand.......winks........
..so it should read, " HOLMESTEAD IRON WORKS, HAMILTON ONT.................thanks for the peek
Comments (6)
clbsmiley
LOL, great storyline there!! :)
stick
How do you tell the boss after a mistake like this. Awesome shot.
T.Rex
Quite frankly, this looks like a joke or prank on the side of the person who made the door. I've seen similar elsewheres. I can just imagine the fun he had doing this and how it would cause people to scratch their heads over it and wonder what's up. Thanks for the chuckle! Keep up the good work! :)
whaleman
Except for the initial "E" the error was most likely a mold that was not properly cleaned from its last use and the missing letters were places where the sand filled the initial depressions for those letters.
GiMi53
Great find and amazing story ! I like this upload ! :~)
Chipka
This is wonderful. It reminds me of a long and complicated prayer scrawled in ancient Egyptian heiroglyphics. The scribe in question made something of a rather prominent mistake and so all he did was, quite simply, "x" out the error and kept writing! Minor (and sometimes not so minor) mistakes preserved for posterity are always a bit more amusing than serious, I think, and I love this example. This is incredibly well seen and I love your historical ruminations. Did he indeed get the comely barmaid?