Im a TYPO PRONE.....graphic designer among other things
its always something that im too smart.....to have bothered with..... that creates HAVOC!
First I do completely agree the image is not a valid scan.
The ‘left bend’ on the image is similiar to the ‘left bend’ that can be seen on the Nordyke twins certified copies.
But the Nordykes certified copies were produced in the mid-1960s. Before BC were scanned into a digital database (likely a WORM optical library) in Hawaii as they now obviously are.
This left bend comes from the document being photographed or mimeographed while still bound. When documents are scanned into an optical WORM library they are unbound and fed flat. And they are scanned with a transparent backround and usually with (1-bit, black and white) or 8-bit encoding to save space. This allows for the security paper (the green cross-hatch) to show through.
The odd thing with the Obama LFBC is that is the ONLY one to show the very distinct Nordyke-like left bend AND be printed on security paper. No other LFBC image to date has this distinction.
The forgers combined technologies from two different eras to create this monstrosity.
Oh - and perfectly centered fields with a manual typewriter?!?!?
Anyone who used a manual type writer knows that was a pain.
Original BC's from the 50's were not printed on hash-marked paper. Furthermore, they were microfilmed. In order to make an official copy of the BC, the microfilmed image was copied onto the modern hash-marked paper, which was then stamped with the date the "official copy" was made and also with the stamp of the department's official and also with the raised seal stamp.....that's the theory. What we have though, is some serious contention with the supposed images that were copied onto that paper.
Are you proposing this idiocy just rile everyone up?