END OF CROSSED LINES, CODEPAGE CENTRE PLUS
FLOURISH AT BASE
102570
The above two images are of the 'flourish' at the base of the code page, I have highlighted a 'spur' on the flourish, which as you can see has some darkened numbers written into it. The first numbers are 102570 with some smaller numbers running along to the right. There are a whole series of markings including numbers and letters beneath the spur which has been taken looking from the top of the page downwards.
The 102570 number set seems to me to be about .6 mm in height.
The 102570 number set seems to me to be about .6 mm in height.
First published in March 2017
This is a close up of the ends of the two crossed lines found near the centre of the code page. The image itself was taken using a UV backlight with an Olympus camera set to macro and a 3X optical magnification. You can make out from this image the tightly packed micro written numbers and some letters. All are done in block caps.
The image below uses an image editor, Techsmith Snagit. This editor gives you the ability to magnify regions within an image as you can see here:
The image below uses an image editor, Techsmith Snagit. This editor gives you the ability to magnify regions within an image as you can see here:
Next, the same method was used to examine the full image of the two crossed lines. First the close up:
Now with magnification, look inside the red circles, the second one in you can see the sequence 'NI608:
And above, here's another for good measure, in this pic, apart from the crossed lines.you can see some of the micro-writing that exists in the letters B and O below the lines.
For the record, these images came from the 'new scans' apparently discovered in somewhat dubious circumstances and which Nick Pelling has thus far failed to disclose. Anyway, the point is that Nick, as erudite as ever, declared that we should all use his newly discovered scans, which are in fact just scans of the original scan, and we should all test them. So, I have and above are some results with much more to come. This, of course, means that by default Nick now agrees that there is micro writing on the code page! Many thanks, Nick. Can we get down to some serious code breaking now? That's your skill area, isn't it?
Last point, Nick, if you are going to attempt, yet again, to disprove what is quite definitely there, may I suggest that you put forward the full results of your tests together with a detailed description of how you conducted them? Disclosing the precise source of the 'new scan' would be a plus of course but I wouldn't expect you to want to do that.
Have a wonderful weekend!
For the record, these images came from the 'new scans' apparently discovered in somewhat dubious circumstances and which Nick Pelling has thus far failed to disclose. Anyway, the point is that Nick, as erudite as ever, declared that we should all use his newly discovered scans, which are in fact just scans of the original scan, and we should all test them. So, I have and above are some results with much more to come. This, of course, means that by default Nick now agrees that there is micro writing on the code page! Many thanks, Nick. Can we get down to some serious code breaking now? That's your skill area, isn't it?
Last point, Nick, if you are going to attempt, yet again, to disprove what is quite definitely there, may I suggest that you put forward the full results of your tests together with a detailed description of how you conducted them? Disclosing the precise source of the 'new scan' would be a plus of course but I wouldn't expect you to want to do that.
Have a wonderful weekend!