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with different reverses  Last modified: 2008-12-26 by phil
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also:  Categories of Different Backsides  We need to distinguish
between two distinct phenomena:    1. Flags that have writing or
(certain types of) pictures that are oriented in one direction.
Common sense suggests that the back of such a flag should not
just be a mirror image of the front, but only to get the
orientation of the writing (or picture) right. I would not say
that such flags have truly DISTINCT obverses and reverses, but
only that the obverse and reverse are not, as most flags are,
mirror-images of each other. Indeed, the main reason this isn't
done more often for flags with writing is probably cost.    2.
Much more interesting and extremel