Even the big guys make mistakes from time to time ...

This label appears to have been used for only one run of blankets. Apparently, the misspelling of the French word “marques” as used on the Big Bilingual A label was what called for this label’s replacement. Subsequently, “marqes” was replaced with the word “points” on the Big Bilingual B label. The other typos were caught in later labels, as well. Note the straight stitching used to affix this label. This method of stitching was replaced by zigzag stitching sometime during the period of use of the Big Bilingual A labels.

ANOTHER NOTE OF INTEREST

From time to time, I read about mistakes in the sizing of Hudson’s Bay Point Blankets as well as Whitney Point Blankets.

Here are HBC’s drawings of these blankets (dated 1935).