THE TRUTH AND FACTS ABOUT VERSE 70

(The image here is a little fuzzy so will be updating it later today.)

The image above and, for that matter, the image currently right at the top of the Home page of our blog, is taken directly from the Verse 70 Inscription found in the copy of the Rubaiyat that was given to Alf Boxall by a nurse named Jestyn in 1945.

When you look closely at the verse you will find a mass of micro written code, it has been expertly inserted into each and every handwritten character, the dash in line 2, and the punctuation marks. It didn't stop there but that's for another post.

If you look carefully, this writing is quite small, at the image above, the highlighted area indicated by the arrow clearly shows microcode, it is a darker grey against a slightly lighter grey background and there are two separate lines one above the other. My view is that micro writing was done in pencil over an inked background. In other words, the Verse was written in ink first and the micro writing inserted afterward in fine pencil markings. In practice, the agent would have a number of pencils limed up and ready sharpened, they would swap them over when needed. In this case, they used an HB pencil and a lighter H grade pencil as is evidenced in the dash found on the second line.

Below is the screen gran showing the 'dash' and other letters all containing microcode:

In the two highlighted areas indicated by arrows, you'll see that the code has been written in two kinds of pencil, one lighter, H grade, and one darker, HB. It's very finely written code but definitely there.

More to follow on this post but what's really important is that what you are seeing constitutes proof that Jestyn and Alf were involved in a clandestine communication technique described in a British SOE manual and known as INK H.

This kind of code is found not only on this page of the Boxall book but also on the adjacent Title page, it's throughout the code page and it is also found in the torn piece of paper concealed by the Somerton Man in a hard to find fob pocket of the trousers he was wearing at the time.

Make no mistake, the Somerton Man case is quite definitely an espionage case, and any serious research and/or study done on the case without reference to this find and the presence of microcode, is just not credible.