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Queen’s Jubilee: High-quality merchandise printed with an embarrassing spelling mistake
The Queen works on board her private train
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More than 10,000 pieces of china tableware were mislabeled at a Chinese factory. They were intended to serve as a souvenir of the Queen’s 70th jubilee.
February 6th will be a very special day for the British: That’s when Queen Elizabeth II celebrates an incredible 70 years on the throne. No British monarch has done that before her. The event won’t be celebrated until June, but then it will be in full swing: there will be celebrations in all major cities, and a monumental event in London. The British are also given an extra public holiday.
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And as you already know from royal weddings or christenings: Of course, the trade in corresponding merchandise has long since begun. A British seller had created a tea set for the day. The porcelain mug and plate set was to be decorated with a portrait of the Queen and the inscription: “In Commemoration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee.” be decorated. However, when the ordered tea services arrived from a factory in China, it must have been a real shock for the man.
Queen’s Jubilee: Merchandise with a typo
Because instead of the English word “jubilee”, translated “anniversary”, the fantasy word “jubbly” can be found on all cups and plates. Apparently there had been a misunderstanding in the ordering process and nobody in the factory had checked the correctness of the print again. Now there’s the merchant, with tons of crockery printed with a rather embarrassing mistake. He had ordered more than 10,000 pieces.
The rescue came in the person of a wholesaler who bought the goods from him. His plan now is to get the tea sets out to the public at a discount – as rare collector’s items. What works for stamps or coins might eventually work for china and one day make the embarrassingly misspelled teacups a coveted and expensive piece.
Source: BBC