THE FELTUS CLUE: W904 8, THE SHOES IDENTIFIED

Many of the viewers of this post will be familiar with the name Gerry Feltus. He was a

Detective Sergeant in the South Australian Police and at that time he had the Cold Case file for the Somerton Man on his desk. 

The case intrigued Gerry greatly to the extent that he went on to write the definitive book about it, THE UNKNOWN MAN. 

Those who know Gerry know him to be an Old School copper, he is a straight shooter and he is a man of principle. As a serving Police Officer, Gerry would have signed the Official Secrets Act and being the man he is, he would have stuck rigidly to the rules, he knew that once you signed that document it was forever and any sensitive information that he came across in his service must be kept secret. That's the nature of the job and of the man.

Whilst I have had numerous conversations with Gerry over the years, we did not specifically discuss the subject of this post so what you're about to see is the result of my own observations and research.

Above is the cover of the UNKNOWN MAN book written by Gerry, it has been a very successful venture for him but now, sadly it is out of print. 

The Back Cover

This next image shows the back of the book and you can see that I have circled a group of characters being W9048. I hear that Gerry had said that it was on a piece of paper in the file and that rings true.

But, I had this feeling that just maybe we were all missing something, so I took an even closer look at the numbers and found that instead of the set reading 'W9048' it actually had a space between the number 4 and the number 8.

I got onto the Trove Newspaper website and entered the new number set into the search box, I added the year 1948. It threw up a long list of articles and adverts but for one reason or another, I chose to select the options of Advertising and Melbourne as a starting point for my search. It didn't take long to produce a result.

STOCKMAN'S BOOTS W904 8

A pair of very smart boots in black, not that dissimilar to today's RM Williams brand having what appears to be a one-piece leather upper. It was an advert for a company known as WITTNERS, they had 4 outlets in Melbourne and one in Footscray, they also offered Mail Order. 

The item number is W804 and it was available in sizes 6 to 11, but, in the small print below the Boots you will see that they also  had the same style of boot in brown and it's item number was W904, it was available in sizes 8 to 11.

The size of the shoes that the Somerton Man was wearing when he was found on the beach were size 8. And there we have it, W904 space 8. Something still wasn't sitting right though.

Weblink:https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/224884603?searchTerm=W904%208&searchLimits= 

DETECTIVE BROWN, STOCKMAN'S 'SHOES'

According to Detective Brown, the Somerton Man was wearing Stockman's Shoes not boots and there was another thing, the records say that the shoes had a number inside them, 204B. 

Back to TROVE! I decided to see whether the company who had advertised the Black boots with a number that matched that on the back of THE UNKNOWN MAN book, also had another style but this time with the number W204, they did.

STOCKMAN'S SHOES 204B?

These shoes were a half ankle, slip on type shoe with a gusset much like the larger boots shown above. They offered all of the ruggedness of the earlier boots but in a more stylish look. These shoes, item number W204 were available in brown and they had a size range of 5 to 11. That is a match with a question, you can see that the number 204 could well be inside the shoe but the records stated 204B, in my view that B could have been an 8 indicating the correct size of the actual shoe and not the letter B. It's also possible that left and right shoe lasts were lettered A & B. I have contacted Wittners to clarify exactly what the numbering system was but my bones tell me that we have found the correct style of shoe. Notice the height of the heel, stockmen rode horses of course and that means they needed a good purchase on the stirrups hence raised heels. 

TODAY's SIMILAR DESIGN 

But with composite Soles

Weblink:https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/224891410?searchTerm=W204%208&searchLimits=l-category=Advertising 

WHAT ABOUT THE POLICE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SHOES?

The W204 shoes are much closer to the description given by Detective Brown as in Stockman's Shoes than the ones shown in this image to the right, these are dress shoes,  I believe that they're called half Oxford Brogues. Wittner's had a brogue shoe but quite a different design to the ones shown here, only 5 lace holes and a different pattern.

CONCLUSION?

What is the value of this new information? Firstly it ticks off another item on the list. Secondly, the substitute shoes in the Police photograph raises a serious question of the integrity of the evidence and thirdly, not mentioned as yet but many of the shoemakers in Melbourne were Bulgarian, some would have been ex internees and thus of interest to the search. In fact, one person who viewed the body had thought SM was a Bulgarian that he knew in the mid-40s.

Of note is that we now have two items of his that were known to be manufactured in Victoria, the Stamina Cloth trousers that he was wearing when found and now the Wittner shoes.

It cannot be said that Gerry directly disclosed any sensitive information. He did, however, get us to within a hair's breadth of the truth.

BEACHES 1948

BEACHES & DUGOUTS 1948 & EARLIER

This image is believed to have been taken in April 1948, the time of the storm. Note that it is in colour. The Kiosk?

The building nearest the camera could be alongside Wilkinson Avenue whilst the hut further North could be near Bickford Terrace.

Modern Image showing two possible locations of the beach shacks/changing sheds.
The X shows the approximate location of the end of the Glenelg jetty as it was pre-1948.

The letter 'A' is alongside Broadway and 'B' is next to Wilkinson Avenue. There are headlands further South but the angles wouldn't fit with the view from the indicated hut. 

These are two local beaches in the 30s and 40s, Brighton and Seacliffe:

Seacliffe

THE BOXALL CODE BOOK: THE TITLE PAGE CONCEALMENT & DECEPTION. UPDATED

CONCEALMENT & DECEPTION

IS 90% OF ESPIONAGE

Can you see it? No, but micro writing is there and there's plenty of it, you just need to know where and how to look because the code is hidden in plain sight.

In all fairness the skill used in both writing and concealing the code is exceptional as you will see in the images below:

ALF BOXALL: CODE BOOK COPY

Micro writing is clearly seen in every location of the grapes image found on the Boxall Title page.

COMPARISON: 3 RUBAIYATS

Here's a comparison using two additional copies of the exact same edition of the Rubaiyat as the Alf Boxall copy:

The first image on the left of the group above is marked BT and the third image on the far right is from my own copy. All three were taken using a macro lens with flash. You'll notice that all three have different paper stock. In the BT copy it appears to be a heavier, textured, stock whilst in my own copy, the stock is quite smooth. It is believed that the Boxall copy also has a smooth paper stock.

And here are more images from the Title page, this time a selection from the Printed Title information:

There will be a PDF made available of all the images taken from the Alf Boxall Code Book when the current series of posts have been completed. But, for now at least, you can see clear incontrovertible evidence that micro writing is a reality and it is found here in the Alf Boxall/ Jestyn copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam specifically in the introductory pages.

IS THE BOXALL VERSION A SPECIAL PURPOSE BOOK?

The fact that micro writing has been found raises two most interesting questions. 

As you have seen in the illustration images related to this version of the book, micro writing is visible whilst in the comparison versions, the very same illustrations, the lady with the Fez and the Grapes, are merely black line drawings and filled shapes in the case of the grapes.

Similarly, the typeface is blacked in for the comparison versions but once again, the micro written code strings are against a plain paper background.

Does this mean that the book itself was specially printed in a short run specifically for this kind of task? This particular book is, in my view, a training manual of sorts. I believe that Alf was training Jestyn and quite possibly others, in the tradecraft art of concealment and deception.

We at least know who the publisher of the book was. 'AUSTRALASIAN PUBLISHING CO. PTY. LTD, SYDNEY, NSW'. However, it was not common for the publisher to also be the printer of books, that work was generally farmed out, but the question is to whom?

The answer to that question is critical if this was a recognised printer of good repute such as a Government Printer, then all is well, and we could assume that Jestyn was working for the Australian Intelligence services. However, it is known that the Communist Party of Australia, apart from having numerous clandestine printing presses throughout Australia, also had, sometimes, controlling interests in mainstream printing companies. If indeed it was one of the latter printers that printed this book, then we have quite a different scenario.

My personal view at this stage is that Jestyn was trained by and worked for Australian Intelligence services.

The answer might lie amongst the 4000 + ASIO files available on the NAA website.

UPDATE

17th Century example of micro writing:

Portrait: Philip Jakob Spenner

This is an image I have had for some time. It shows amongst other things various fruits with micro writing, with birds and people all created with words. In fact, every part of this image is in micro writing.

Micrographic Illustrated Omer Calendar [Dov Margolioth, Germany, ca. 1830]

This piece was sold at Sotheby's approximately 6 years ago for $185000 USD.

NEXT POSTS

The next post will be quite short, it's a video clip showing just how, I believe, the microwriting found on the code page was done. After that we have two more posts, one is the Somerton Man Code page with microcode revealed and the second is the torn Tamam Shud piece. Both are very revealing, in fact, they'll blow you away.

VERSE 70 INSCRIPTION, MICRO CODE, INCREDIBLE DETAIL. UPDATED

VERSE 70 INSCRIPTION

In the previous posts, you will have seen the hidden microcode in the centre of the book, the edges of the cover, and the FEZ lady. In fact if you would care to download the image above, you can take a closer look for yourself at those three areas.

But, today's post is about handwritten Verse 70! It was supposedly written as a friendly gesture by Jess to Alf and given to him at the Clifton Gardens Hotel in August 1945. I have always doubted that and the recent posts confirm that doubt even without what you're about to see in the close-ups of parts of the inscription.

Every word in the verse including Jestyn's signature, the inverted commas, and the dash contains micro written code, whilst some of it is a little blurred it is obviously present.

Centre Section of the verse:

 Spring:

Lower T crossbar reads: 293N9

To the left the first line, 'Indeed...

And to the right, 'and then, and then...

If you look very carefully at the JESTYN signature, you will see letters and numbers within the highlighted area and elsewhere. The code which is written within the signature, whilst small, is still legible. New lens and lighting equipment is proving to be very valuable with more improvements on the way.

 

In due course, I will complete the full photographic analysis and make it available for the Inscription page and another for the Title page. 

Speaking of which, the Title page will be the next post and here's a couple of samples to whet the appetite:

                                                                                         

The two samples from the Title page shown here are just the beginning, you will be amazed at just what has been found. It's not just the wording on the page that contains a microcode.

Given that it has been written in a specific code, and we are not yet certain about that, then we have a good-sized sample which hopefully we will be sufficient for us to break that code. 

What's really exciting about that is the fact that having now taken some excellent Macro extreme close-ups of the Somerton Man code page, this may lead us to properly and fully cracking the microcode which exists on the code page itself.

MICRO CODE: THE ALF BOXALL CODE BOOK #2, THE FEZ LADY. UPDATED 30th JANUARY 2021

THE ALF BOXALL CODE BOOK #2:

THE FEZ LADY

THE BOXALL CODE TRAINING MANUAL, TRADECRAFT AT ITS BEST.

This is the image we are now familiar with, on the left is the inscription and on the right is the Title Page.  It looks so innocent doesn't it?

In the previous post, we looked closely at the 'Deception/Concealment' technique used by Alf as a training manual for Jestyn. In particular, we examined images that show how strings of micro letters and numbers were concealed in what appeared to be a thin blue line drawn alongside the left-hand page. You can just see that n the image above. For the record, I think that the 'line' done around the same time that the number 70 was written in sometime after the Littlemore interview. We also looked at the crease between the two pages and found one long string of micro letters and numbers written in.

In this post, we will take a closer look at the lady with the fez on the left-hand page.

But first, the image below is of the fez lady and title page but not from my copy of the same edition as the book that was used by Alf Boxall. (I managed to find mine online and bought it some 4 + years ago. By a quirk of fate, it turned out that the book that I bought once belonged to a teacher. of mine many years ago)

So this copy is not mine, it is from Barry Traish a good man and his copy could be viewed as being independent:

The first step was to print out a high-resolution copy of the images of the blank title and inscription pages sent to me by Barry some years ago. I set the printer to High quality and printed it out onto Bleedproof paper. This is the scan of that bleed proof image, it is done at 300 DPI, just like the scan of the Boxall inscription and title page that I have posted on this blog.

If you compare the detailed close-up views of the Boxall copy and the one above on the left from Barry Traish, you'll see that they are quite different. You will see markings in the oultine shape of BT's copy but not distinct letters and numbers.

Another example below is a close up of some of the letters from the title page as a comparison:

Once again, you can see blot markings in the left-hand copy taken from Barry's copy of the Rubaiyat but on the right-hand image you can see that there are definite letters and numbers and the image is much sharper. There is a slight difference in colour of the pages, the reason for that is that during WW2 and after, there was a severe paper shortage leading to printers using whatever paper was available at the time. You will even find some copies with two kinds of paper in the one book.

My belief is that the Boxall book may have been a special printing with actual print work being carried out by military of Government printers, this was known to occur.

If you were to put yourself in the position of an agent who wanted to conceal a message effectively, wouldn't you look for an image where markings, even dissimilar in close up view, would tend to disguise the message? One thing is for sure, they wouldn't want to have their clandestine message stand out in any way at all.

To the Post!

Here are some close-ups of the Fez lady and you will see just how microcode was concealed in the shape, you can also see how the images have to be turned in order to see the concealments:

OUTLINES NUMEROUS STRINGS TO FORM THE SHAPE. There are many more glimpses of additional code strings within this image including the Fez itself. 

The comparison above clearly shows that Alf's book was used for purposes other than reading poetry.

THE TASSEL with concealed strings of letters/numbers plus
a string on the side of the forehead

THE EYEBROW and again the tassel with more concealments

Forehead

WRIST BAND

MIDRIF

NEXT UP

In the next post, we will be examining the Inscription of Verse 70, this was the first example of microcode found in this book some 6 years ago. At the time, lack of equipment, and the necessary skills to properly show the microcode hidden within the writing was a barrier. Thankfully, I have been able to acquire better photographic equipment and have attended numerous courses including Forensic Examination of Documents. The post will show some extraordinary detail.

MICRO CODE: THE ALF BOXALL CODE BOOK #1, UPDATE 1.

THE GAME CHANGER ...

This blog has for some time taken the position that Alf and Jess were involved in espionage in some way. We've never really been able to nail it, the inscription of verse 70 in Alf's book does show hidden writing within the words which were supposedly written by Jess, but is that snippet enough?

There must surely be more happening between Alf and Jess, information must have been passed, but what and importantly how?

In the 40s microfilm was quite widely used to pass the secret information on and there is the story of one spy couple who hid microfilm in a bar of chocolate only to be stopped at the Swiss border and told that there was a limit to the number of bars they could take with them into Switzerland. Ever resourceful, the couple sat down and ate the surplus which included the bar with the film. They crossed the border safely with their stolen information which, in due course, became available once more.

What if Alf and Jess really were spies? How would they have communicated?  More to the point, how and where was Jess trained in the fine and ultimately deadly art of spying?

THE DECEPTION GAME

90% of Espionage is Deception. Covert ways and means are used to conceal weapons, equipment, messages, and more. Disguises are used, encrypted diplomatic messages containing top-secret information are passed in the most unlikely of ways.

Take the copy of the Rubaiyat that Jess is said to have handed to Alf in August 1945, how else could that have been used in this scenario? Let's call it 'Alf's Code Book':

 In the 40s, everyone had one of these, but our story says that not everyone had a copy quite like this one, you might say that it's almost unique.

Let's take a peek inside:

There we have it, just as it was presented to Stuart Littlemore back in the 70s, inscription page on the left and the Title page on the right. We can see the inscription quite clearly. In fact, using some new recovery techniques and tools, the hidden writing within each of the letters has been revealed. More on that later.

Wearing our newly acquired 'Spy' hats, we need to answer the question, where else in this open book, was information concealed? Where else was micro written code hidden?

For now, we'll look at the left hand, inscription, page, I've marked up two areas of interest in the red oblong shapes, one is the bottom left corner and the other the mid-right side:

BOTTOM LEFT OF THE INSCRIPTION PAGE:

The left-hand side of the inscription page, when you examine it carefully, has what appears to be a thin blue line running from bottom to the top of the page and close to the edge of the page. Here's the bottom section of that line in close-up:

What you can see in the highlighted area is a string of numbers and letters, the little red star is directly beneath the letters AD. This line gets thinner and extends to the top of the page. The rest of the line will be added to this post in the coming days. The small inner rectangle to the left also contains a micro-written code. Again, this will be added to the post shortly.

SEE NOTE AT BASE OF PAGE RE CLOSE UP IMAGES

HIGHLIGHTED RIGHT MID SECTION

A little more difficult to see but once again, there are letters and numbers concealed in plain sight in the crease down the center between the left and right pages. The small rectangle to the left has 3 numbers inscribed, it is placed right on top of one of the threads that hold the book pages in place. I will add a close-up version for the midsection.

We have more to include for the right side inscription page and over the course of the next few days, I will add more images.

CLOSEUP OF CENTRE SECTION:

THE TRAINING MANUAL

This edition of the copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam within which Jess Harkness is said to have handwritten an inscription of Verse 70 from that book for Alf Boxall, was much more than a standard book, it was Alf Boxall's code book, his training manual for Jess.

There are a number of questions that are raised about this book including when and where it was printed, we know that it was published by The Australasian Publishing Company who had offices in Sydney but publishers are mostly not the printers.

For reasons we will discuss later, the issue of the identity of the printers of this book is crucial information.

   NOTES ON CLOSE UP IMAGES

IMPORTANT: When you download the full page image, you can print it out but you must print it on a reasonable quality inkjet printer and set the quality of print to 'BEST' or 'HIGHEST'. The paper you should use for this print is BLEEDPROOF, it stops the ink spreading and gives a sharper image. When you print on bleedproof paper using a high-quality setting, your printer outputs more ink than for a normal print, you should, therefore, leave the print on the printer output tray for about 10 minutes to allow the ink to properly dry. You can then go ahead and photograph parts of the newly printed image. Ideally, you use a camera with a macro lens, but, if you have a mobile phone with a 12-megapixel camera, you can take a reasonable photograph from quite close but you must use the flash to get the best result.

One final note, these images are subject to copyright, you may download and use them for your personal use but they are not to be displayed on any other blog or website without express permission from myself. If you wish to publish them, I can be contacted via the comments section or email form.

MICROCODE PART 1: DO THE HAY INTERNMENT CAMP BANKNOTES FIT INTO THE SOMERTON MAN CASE?

THE EVIDENCE SAYS YES..

(Updated 10th May 2020)

PURPOSE

The purpose here is to present instances of micro written words and codes associated with the Somerton Man case in chronological order and as such, this post on the Hay Banknotes is the first of a short series on this subject in order to 'set the scene' for the events of the night of November 31st, 1948 and the months afterward.

These notes contain micro written content, some of which are to be found within the design of the notes themselves and some within the signatures.

SIGNIFICANTLY, you will see that there is an example of a signature which had microcode written inside the letters of the signature, this mimics exactly the SOE Code method known as INK H which wasn't included in the SOE manuals until 1943

Let me first explain a little of the design. George, a man with previous experience in currency design, had put together a series of concept drawings of backgrounds to which he was to add intricate hand-drawn surrounds including a rectangular shape which itself included very strings of tiny numbers and letters.  Amongst the internees in the Hay camp at the time there were numerous craftsmen, artists, watchmakers, and interestingly, just one who described himself as an 'Engraver'.

HAY INTERNMENT CAMP BANKNOTES

Around the perimeter of each of the notes was an illustration of barbed wire, carefully written into the barbed wire shape you will find the words:

'WE ARE HERE BECAUSE WE ARE HERE' 

which repeats around the entire shape of the note.

The Hay banknotes were designed by George A. Teltscher, an internee at the Hay Internment Camp. George was one of 2500 + German Jewish males who were deported from the UK in 1941. George would have been amongst those arrested and held initially at Huyton near Liverpool in the UK where he would have rubbed shoulders with many famous Jewish people including one Klaus Fuchs, Klaus went on to be possibly the most famous Atom Spy ever. Another fellow internee at Huyton and later Hay and Tatura was a man called TIBOR KALDOR.

Tibor was to be found dead by poisoning in a Hindley Street, Adelaide, Hotel just two weeks after the discovery of the man on the beach at Somerton who had also died of poisoning but at the hands of an assassin. Please note, he was not killed by a 'spy' as such but by an assassin and there is a major difference between the two. As we progress through this series, you will read of the circumstances and of the people who it is believed were present during the final hours leading to the death of the Somerton Man.

At this point, I gratefully acknowledge the key contribution of Clive Turner in finding the very small article in the Adelaide press and in the many hours he dedicated to the follow-up work which led us to the discovery of the nature of the Hay Banknotes.

 WRITING WITHIN CURSIVE SIGNATURES

Each note was hand signed by the manager of currency, Mr. Stahl, and one of 4 co-signatures. 

42229?

A second example of  microcode in a different note

The examples below show one of the signatures and within it, significantly, you can see the presence of tiny letters and numbers. The large example immediately to the left being quite distinct as you can see in the marked-up area.

Of the techniques shown in this post, the use of micro written letters and numbers thin cursive writing is quite probably the most significant of all. It is the same technique that was used in the handwritten Verse 70 found in Alf Boxall's copy. It is also found on the code page with micro written code hidden beneath the marked over letters.

The video below clearly shows micro writing hidden in plain sight within the letters that spell out the denomination, in this case it was a Two Shilling note:

Next is probably the most significant image, it is from the TWO SHILLING note numbered 

E 39203, it shows clearly the use of micro writing actually within the cursive letter 'R' of the signature of Mr. Stahl, the Manager of the Hay Internment Bank:

42229?

The significance of the writing within the Stahl signature cannot be overstated. It is precisely this technique that was later to be used within the handwritten Verse 70 supposedly given to Alf Boxall by Jestyn in August 1945. I dot think that it was as simple as that and in PART 2 of this series of posts, we will show some astonishing new information.

ONE SHILLING NOTE CLOSE UPS.

Most importantly, the micro letters and numbers are hidden but hidden in plain sight within the shaded area of each of the larger letters:

The plates for the notes were cut at Hay camp and a local newspaper owner carried out the printing task, all, of course, with the permission of the camp commander. Several thousand notes across three denominations were produced.

CLANDESTINE COMMUNICATIONS

The notes were released in March 1942 and within weeks the plates and any printed notes were confiscated by NSW Police on the grounds that they were too similar to standard Australian currency. Personally, my view is that the police had entirely different reasons for seizing these notes and plates. What they saw was not Banknotes but a set of tutorials in 'Clandestine Communications' and, in fact they were looking for what codes if any, could be found within the individual notes.







             


Yet more code within the shaded areas of the word TWO on the left.

In a later post, we will show how this exact same technique was used in Alf Boxall's copy of the Rubaiyat









In the first example from another 2 Shilling note on the left below, you can see how the code has been written alongside each letter as shading. In the second example of the same image, on the right below you can see what appears to be additional code written at the of the letter 'O'

ONE TIME PAD?

The One-Time Pad or OTP is an encryption technique in which each character of the plaintext is combined with a character from a random keystream. Originally described in 1882 by banker Frank Miller (USA), it was re-invented in 1917 by Gilbert Vernam and Joseph Mauborgne. When applied correctly, the OTP provides a truly unbreakable cipher. It is named after the sheets of paper (pads) on which the keystream was usually printed.'

This is not to say that the Hay Banknotes were deliberately set up to act as one time pads, rather that they lend themselves to use as one time pads.

In these next images, we are looking at the rectangular surrounds of the banknotes. I have brought together the left columns and right columns of two banknotes, a 1 Shilling and a 2 Shilling note for comparison. If you look at this image very carefully you'll see that each column is different, the numbers/letters that are listed are unique for each column.

Similar images have been shown in a recent post, this time we get, I think a better image of the rectangular surround on each note which appears at first glance to be just a simple set of heavy, short lines. Under magnification we can just make out letters and numbers but, under Infrared, we see that these lines are in fact sets of 10 letters and numbers in each line.

The column of numbers 'could' be used as a one time pad. Here's an explanation from the Crypto Museum:

Here's a real example of a One TIme Pad:

You'll note that the strings or stream in the Crypto Museum example is made up of 5 numbers. It is conceivable that the first 5 numbers or last 5 numbers in each string in the Hay banknotes could have been used for that purpose.

Below is a format of a one-time pad used by the U.S. National Security Agency, code named DIANA. The table on the right is an aid for converting between plaintext and ciphertext using the characters at left as the key:

As we progress with this series of posts you will see exactly how the Hay Banknotes fit into the story of the Somerton Man.

SOME NOTES SURVIVED

Some of the 6000 +  original Hay Banknotes managed to survive the Police raid and on today's market, some are worth in excess of $12000.

Mick Vort Ronald,  an ex-South Australian Police Officer, has published a number of books on the subject of Australian and other currencies and in fact, supplied me with the high-resolution images that I have used in this and other posts.

Interestingly when George Teltscher was released, he returned to the UK by sea. The route he took was via the Panama canal which was the safest way home. This trip was unusual in that the Americans expressly forbade the passage of any ex internees via the Panama canal.

On his return, George dropped out of sight until 1946/47, it is not known what work he was doing in the years between.

With thanks to Mick Vort Ronald for images of the notes.

Part 2 of this series of posts will show some never before seen images of Alf Boxall's copy of the Rubaiyat.