Monday 13 July 2015

Somerton Man: Letter T from the torn piece in more detail

Letter T Showing Numbers and Letters

Please remember to adjust your screen resolution to the best possible.
If printing this out once again ensure that you set the printer to high or Best resolution for the image.

Crossbar of T, only oblique lighting used
Curve adjusted

Upright of T, only oblique lighting used
Curve adjusted


Yet more work to do, I think there's more than enough here to demonstrate that there are letters and numbers within the torn piece although still somewhat faded in appearance. It needs to be borne in mind that some kind of special technique was use to insert these letters and numbers and whether that was the Ink H method discussed in earlier posts or perhaps some kind of chemical, I cannot be sure.

One thing for certain is that the torn piece is still in existence and could be/should be tested for the presence of chemicals. If the ink H method was used then the paper would need to be immersed in a strong bleach solution to remove the inks leaving the pencil marks.

The image used was sourced from Adelaide University.
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Sunday 5 July 2015

Somerton Man: The T from Tamam Shud torn piece, the key?

What do we have here?


Look carefully at the cross bar of this letter T above from the torn piece. There is a string of numbers reading left to right. Still working on the rest of the letters and feel that I should be able to improve on this and others. This one was taken using the Olympus camera and oblique as well as some back lighting. 

Something that I found late last year that frankly has puzzled me. This is a close up, backlit and enhanced by contrast/brightness, of the upright of the letter 'T' from the Tamam Shud torn piece. Look carefully within the highlighted area and you'll see a short string of numbers in a block type format it is admittedly quite feint but the numbers are there.

I made some enquiries from a long time friend who is a printer, I asked him whether it was common to include serial numbers on a letterpress font. The short answer was 'No' and decidedly 'No' on the print face.

So, what do we have here?


Above is a scaled image showing the torn piece superimposed on an image released at the time purportedly of the actual Omar book. However there are some who think that this image was one of a similar book found and used by the press. It poses an interesting question, if a similar book has not been found in all these years then you would have to wonder how the press got hold of another copy at the time.
Once again you should ensure that you have your screen resolution set to the optimum high res. You may find it best to print the images out and if you do so make sure that you have the printer settings on Best quality.


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Thursday 2 July 2015

Somerton Man: Verse 70 Cleaned up images

Clive in one of his comments requested that I show some enhanced images from 70, so here are some worth viewing, here's a couple of tips before you start.
1. Check the screen resolution on your monitor, most often the resolutions are set low or you may just have a low resolution machine.
2. You can print these but again you need to ensure that you have the print quality set high/photo quality

Bear in mind that the Ink H technique in use here means that we are capturing only the darker shaded areas and that the letters/numbers are covered with a dense layer of ink.


The above image is a close up of the first word in the 3rd line (and). You will note the backlit downward stroke of the letter 'd'. I have done a little enhancement to bring up the numbers so that they're more readily visible. Of note is the fact that these numbers are aligned with the inked area, this was part of the technique whereby inked letters were laid down first and then the shape of the letters were used as guidelines within which the micro content would be inserted. My estimation is that these micro numbers are in the range of .5 to .7 mm.

Moving on:

This image is of the first word in the last line  'My' you should also be able to make out the darker tell tale areas in other letters surrounding this word.

I am still working on these images and hope to bring you clearer versions in the next few days.

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Wednesday 1 July 2015

Somerton Man: The Letters M. More writings..



I am busy making the most of the time I have spare and hope that these images of the Letter M plus a couple that show the R from the code page which will present well on the blog. These were all taken under UV light with no editing apart from cropping the size of each image for presentation purposes.

A very quick post for now but I will review this later this week.





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