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WE’RE SORRY

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WE'RE SORRY laundromat sign: IF YOUR MACHINE FAILS TO OPERATE place an out of order sign on machine. Leave your name and address for refund. (original)
Original. Cropped from a Flickr photo by finitor, Trumansburg NY, July 2011.
WE'RE SORRY laundromat sign: IF YOUR MACHINE FAILS TO OPERATE place an out of order sign on machine. Leave your name and address for refund. (AI reproduction, not the original)
AI reproduction (Grok) made from the low resolution crop at left. Not the original artwork; details may differ.

Registration: K58995, 15 Mar 1960
Figure (catalog wording): Comic tearful character
Rule on the sign: IF YOUR MACHINE FAILS TO OPERATE place an out of order sign on machine. Leave your name and address for refund.
Seen: Trumansburg NY, 2011

The record

The 1960 Catalog of Copyright Entries lists this design under the claimant LAUNDESIGNS. The entry reads, word for word:

We’re sorry. Sign display. [Comic tearful character] Print. Author of the print: Joseph Schorr. © Laundesigns; 15Mar60; K58995.

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, 1960, Works of Art (Class K). Documented
Scan of the 1960 Catalog of Copyright Entries page listing the Laundesigns sign displays, including WE'RE SORRY
The Laundesigns entries in the 1960 Catalog of Copyright Entries, via the Internet Archive.

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