We’ve been looking at the lettering and folds. Some people had a problem with the lettering and folds, but I didn’t see a problem, although I was focusing on the “typed” text.
Something kept drawing my eyes toward the paragraph at the bottom of both documents. The part that states, “I, XXX, Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths”, etc. They do NOT match between the Kenyan and Aussie docs. The wording is the same except for the location but the justification does not match. I’m not sure if that matters, but that’s what I kept looking at for some reason.
Then I remembered that making a negative of an image can sometimes reveal a lot more detail. Think “Shroud of Turin”. So, I downloaded the Aussie BC to my desktop, opened the image in Paint (of all things), reversed the image, and looked at that bottom paragraph.
There it became glaringly obvious to me that the text is simply superimposed over an image of a folded piece of paper.
I highly recommend you try the same. Look at the entire image “reversed”, especially the bottom paragraph and how the entire text just goes right across the creases without any alteration. It’s almost comical.
Perhaps someone can post a “negative” of the Aussie BC for all to see what I’m talking about.
...There it became glaringly obvious to me that the text is simply superimposed over an image of a folded piece of paper.
Don't just look at the typed text, look at the lines (in the Bomford image.) For example, look at the horizontal line above the "1953" that follows "Years of Present Marriage." Do you see what happens to that line as it crosses the two creases? Absolutely nothing. It is a solid perfectly straight line right through the crease.
I tried your negative image trick, and it works, but it is not necessary. Just magnify the image until each letter is about an inch tall on your monitor, the pay attention to the lines. The effect you describe is perfectly obvious.
“Look at the entire image “reversed”, especially the bottom paragraph and how the entire text just goes right across the creases without any alteration. It’s almost comical.”
Yeah. That was the part I posted because of the suspicions I had.
For a ‘folded’ document, the text is just a little to straight and evenly proportioned. And the characters should be ‘faded’ the same as the creases and they’re not.
Reversing the image I noticed the same thing you did.
Comical and pathetic.