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Posted By: tobacco-r-us

This one is a good one.
Regardless of some of the speculation, assumptions, supposition, conjecture, and anything else derivative to a fertile mind --
We all seem to agree that the printers of that period, and anyone else connected to producing the cards, weren't all that bad.
In fact, they were very good.
The only problem is that they were human, and thus subject to human error.

The Magie error was caught fast, and the Slow Joe error, - faster.