[TheBigIf]

They both have the same exact stain on them. Is it posible that we are seeing photos of the document from two completly different time frames?

[RetroSexual]

They both have the same exact stain on them. Is it posible that we are seeing photos of the document from two completly different time frames?

I think they're the same piece of paper. The folds are identical, even down to the very slightly upturned corner in the lower right.

I suppose it's possible that two pages were folded together, but even then I think the folds would differ.

It seems to me that the "cleaned up" newer image could have had the edges of the paper photoshopped, along with the perforations on the edges. Only the original document would give up the truth (just like another birth certificate I can think of).

why would someone photograph the paper at all, unless preparing for an internet campaign? So I wonder why there would be a much older photo out there.

[library user]

They both have the same exact stain on them. Is it posible that we are seeing photos of the document from two completly different time frames?

If the cleaner version was a copy, it would have a black mark where the brown stain is. Copies don't use brown.

[Swordmaker]

They both have the same exact stain on them. Is it posible that we are seeing photos of the document from two completly different time frames?

I think the bottom one, with the black background, has been altered to remove the striped background table cloth (or whatever) and the "artist" who was attempting to do so was using the wrong Photoshop tool to do it, either deliberately, or inadvertently, or ignorantly. The "tear" appears to be a "tool" slip... sloppy work.

[AmericanVictory]

Good question. We agree.