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- 1978 (Creation)
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T-shirt was donated by the daughter of the original owner, who “read the Manchester Guardian every day and completed the crossword before going to bed… it was a very important part of his intellectual life”
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White Guardian San Seriffe t-shirt. On 1 April 1977 the Guardian produced a 7 page travel supplement on the tiny tropical republic of San Serriffe, “a small archipelago, its main islands grouped roughly in the shape of a semicolon, in the Indian Ocean”, which was apparently celebrating ten years of independence. The country was in fact completely made up as an April Fool’s joke. T-Shirts were produced and around 12,000 were sold to Guardian readers in 1978.
Production place: England
Materials: Cotton
Colour: Black; White
Condition: Good
Dimensions: Size 'M'
Completeness: Complete
Creator: Unknown
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