SOMERTON MAN CASE TAMAM SHUD: THE BOXALL RUBAIYAT, TITLE PAGE MICROCODE UPDATED 3.00pm Local time Australia 16th March 2022

 

VERSE 70 MICROCODE

(SEE FULL 2 PAGES BELOW)

This post shows a selection of letters from the wording on the Boxall Rubaiyat Title page. They are amongst the clearest examples shown on this blog. Finely written in caps, each letter fits almost exactly within the outline of the larger letters. If you look closely at each image on this page you will see examples where the smaller letters extend a little beyond the outlines of the larger letters. Ihe microcode letters range in size from .6mm to .8mm. In some of the smaller title words, the written code gets down to .3 mm in height. All very doable.

For the record, the threshold for the human eye to see such small writing is reckoned to be .1mm for someone with good eyesight or with a viewing aid.

2 PAGE SPREAD, BOXALL VERSE 70 RUBAIYAT

below you will see the full 2 open pages of the Verse 70 inscription copy of the Rubaiyat as given to Army Lieutenant Alf Boxall by the Nurse who apparently signed off the inscription as J Estyn. There is a story behind that signature which I will relate later.

The file here is a TIFF file, it is as close to a full raw file that we can post here. In its final format, it is more than 300 meg. What you are looking at is a high-resolution scan, 1200 dpi, of the two pages of interest. You can actually see quite a lot of what has been hidden for more than 70 years in this image. To enable you to see, even more, the image that follows this one has been adjusted to contrast the details and thus show yet more evidence of micro-written code, and then I have marked up and pointed to specific examples.

BEST VIEWED UNDER STRONG LIGHT & BACKLIGHT IF AVAILABLE:

If you would prefer the full 300 meg file please follow this link to download...

ADJUSTED IMAGE MARKED UP:

You can zoom in to this image above, download it first and then use your image tools to get a close-up view. Focus on the marked-up areas first and then explore!

CLOSE UP IMAGES:

Highlighted portions of letters clearly showing microcode. Its been exquisitely executed but you will detect a slight variation in the angles of the uprights of the larger letters.

The first name OMAR is from the title page. You can clearly see within the letter O how each micro letter carefully follows the shape of the letter...

  

Finally, the two letters RU from RUBAIYYAT.

On the left you can see that I have inverted the image. The writing was done from the left side on some occasions and them from the right on others.

This lower image was done from the left and is more readily visible as microcode.

This next image is a close-up of the dividing line between the two pages, you can see the tiny micro written letters and some numbers hidden in that location:

These examples are indisputable, you can mistake them for anything other than what they are, microcode. The same kind of code that has been shown to exist on the Code Page, the TAMAM SHUDtorn piece, and the HAY Internment Camp Banknotes.

The technique used to recover this microcode is the same as has been described in recent posts. Inkjet, high quality, high print resolution, bleed proof paper plus, where needed, a few drops of acetic acid.

And you can clearly see an excellent example of clandestine communications and the method known as INK h from the British SOE manual on codes. To the best of my knowledge this is amongst the very few examples that have been publicly shown anywhere.

But, the big question is, what does all this code mean? I can tell you that a lot of work has gone into that aspect and much of it will be revealed within the near future.