Tamam Shud Slip
IMAGES COMPARED
Collins Verse 75 Front (Recto)
Collin Vere 74 View (Verso)
|IMAGE SIZE = 4.6 cms X 2 cms
Comparing the two images above, you can see that the torn piece viewed from the front and then turned over would have printing on the back as per Detective Brown's Statement
Whitcomb & Tombs
Here's the view of verse 75 from the Whitcomb and Tombs version with an overlay to show positioning.
Image 1. Full Page Tamam Shud
Overlay 1 Showing Collins Tamam Shud before
positioning:
Overlay 2 Showing Collins Tamam Shud
positioned
The images above demonstrate that the W& T version of the torn slip would have no printing visible on the reverse side.
It's important to bear in mind, that Detective Brown had the torn slip that was found in the Somerton Man's concealed fob pocket and it is that slip that he used to compare to the Collins version, and it is that slip that had printing on its reverse side.
These are Detective Brown's actual words:
‘I was not able to find a copy which did not have printing on the back of it as from the slip of paper produced’
Apparently, John Sanders at the Cipher Mysteries blog could not understand the meaning of those words.
To help him out, I employed ChatGPT with its exceptional reasoning ability to interpret the meaning for him and here it is:
To help him out, I employed ChatGPT with its exceptional reasoning ability to interpret the meaning for him and here it is:
First, the prompt I used:
The sentence ‘I was not able to find a copy which did not have printing on the back of it as from the slip of paper produced’ suggests that the speaker was not able to find a version of the slip of paper without printing on the back.
Here is a sentence which is not clear. ‘I was not able to find a copy which did not have printing on the back of it as from the slip of paper produced’. Does the sentence infer that there was printing on the back of the slip of paper or that there wasn’t printing on the back?
RESPONSE:The sentence ‘I was not able to find a copy which did not have printing on the back of it as from the slip of paper produced’ suggests that the speaker was not able to find a version of the slip of paper without printing on the back.
This implies that the slip of paper in question had printing on the back.
The phrase "not able to find a copy which did not have printing" emphasizes that all copies examined did have printing on the back.
The phrase "not able to find a copy which did not have printing" emphasizes that all copies examined did have printing on the back.
The question is does the torn slip that has been circulated for some time, have writing on the back? Here's the slip:
This image was taken under a microscope and from one side only, there was no backlighting and no image taken of the reverse side as far as I am aware. Thus we are not able to see if there are any words on the back. Some years ago that torn slip was in existence and in Professor Abbott's possession but I have no idea of its current whereabouts.