THE TORN SLIP CODE...
LETTERS 'A' & 'T'...
The image above is a very clear example of microcode within the first letter A in TAMAM from the phrase TAMAM SHUD, the torn piece.
Faded? Yes, Visible? Yes...
The latest camera plus techniques has given better results. The images above came from the full TAMAM SHUD phrase and I can tell you that it is a lot clearer than appears here.
The full set of Somerton Man code images will be made available in due course and in the meantime, I ask you to please bear with me. The results are truly amazing and well worth waiting for...
THE QUESTION OF MICRO WRITING:
This post has been updated to show the very clear presence within the letter A of definite microcode.
I noticed a couple of things around the blog space, both are really quite similar in their approach. One from a blogger known for his negative comments and another from another blog for whom I have respect.
One blogger called my finds 'questionable', and others state that they doubt the presence of such small writing quoting size of around 1 mm is a very small size. It isn't and I can prove that personally.
Lets deal with them separately.
A. The Questionable statement. Pete, why don't you ask a serious question about it? To my knowledge you like other vociferous Nay Sayers, haven't tested it and I actually offered to drive down and demonstrate it for you. Can you imagine, casting doubt but not having the wit to carry out a simple test. I know why that it and I will leave that to the next comment.
B. The second blogger I think is genuinely uninformed. I hope you are reading this and understand I do have respect for the trouble you went to gathering as much information as you could on the case. Micro writing has been around for approximately 4000 years in one form or another. The finest example of the skill was done by James W Zaharee, James used to travel with Ripley's Believe It Or Not group. he had incredible skill with his major achievement being the writing of Lincolns Gettysburg address on a 3-inch strand of human hair. he went on to write the full declaration of Independence on a single grain of rice. I estimate that work to have been written at about .12 of an mm. Here's a link:
https://news.prairiepublic.org/main-street/2018-11-06/james-zaharee.
Here's another link from a newspaper clipping discussing the many examples of microscopic writing competitions run in various countries, the work was quite stunning:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/87524530?searchTerm=Tiny%20writing%20competition
This next link from this blog is packed with information and examples of just where and how micro writing was used by intelligence agents and by Belgian resistance fighters:
https://tamamshud.blogspot.com/2014/07/somerton-man-where-did-micro-writing.html
I once had a bid in place for a US Marines Great Coat once owned by Zaharee but missed out. He served from 1942 to 1945 and I think he was in Australia at some time during his tour of duty.
All I ask gentlemen is that before you make negative comments about the work I do and have done here on this blog, you spend just a little time testing out the method I have published several times. It couldn't be simpler. here it is again:
1. Get a good quality high resolution image of either or all of the torn slip, The Boxall Rubaiyat and the Somerton Man code page.
2. Set the print resolution to 1200 dpi, you may have to scan it or better still, photograph it. Save that file as a TIFF file
3. Using a decent inkjet printer, I use an Epson XP970, set the paper type to plain paper, set the print quality to Finest or Best whatever the highest setting on your printer. Load your printer with BLEEDPROOF paper, this is important as it prevents the sometimes excessive spread of ink that occurs on other qualities of paper.
4. Print out the file that you saved, let it dry, for around 10 minutes to be on the safe side. Now examine it.
5. The next step may sound odd but it is very effective. In the war years, they used to use strong bleach to remove ink layers. In this case, the problem is different, we are not dealing with pencil writing covered in ink, it would be easier if that was the case. What we are dealing with is micro-thin layers of ink that reproduce faithfully the details contained in the image file. The file 'knows' that there are 250 different shades from clear to black and prints out layers accordingly. Where the original photograph had variations of depth of colour/black, the printer will capture that information and lay down layers accordingly. The next step in our process is to remove some of those layers but bleach is way too strong. I used plain old acetic acid, lemon juice and soaked the pages I had printed with it. Acetic acid is just strong enough to do the job although it may take two applications. All you have to do now is to examine the printed paper and take some close-up photographs of the results. It is that simple.
If you follow this method you will get the same results that I get and that is you will see many instances of micro-written letters and numbers where the heavier ink has been removed. Further, you will find it on the code page, the torn slip, and in Alf Boxall's ROK.