First of all, there never was an Obama COLB. There was one, and only one, forged COLB image populated with, as-yet undetermined, birth information about OBama. That image was first posted on the Daily Kos, followed by a much smaller copy of it posted on Obama's official website.
It is correct to state that every other image purported to be that of OBama's is a copy of the original Kos image forgery.
You asked about the history of the Decosta image, and here's the 411.
Not only is the DeCosta image the first COLB image ever posted on the Internet, it was the ONLY image of a COLB posted on the Internet prior to the creation of the Kos image.
If a forger wanted to create another COLB without actually having either a paper COLB in hand, or another image of a COLB, the only source available to him or her, at the beginning of this process, was the DeCosta COLB.
The DeCosta COLB has been viewable on the Valee Geneology site for about four or five years (according to the site owner).
However, given how rampant is the copying of images from one site to another, it should come as no surprise that there are many copies of the DeCosta image floating around the Net on various other sites. The Vallee site owner is none too happy about that little bit of piracy.
As I outlined in my story, and especially in a recent addition which appears above, there is no question that the general layout of the document portrayed in Kos image, including the borders, the masthead, the headers, the text, the seal image, etc, was fully derived from the DeCosta COLB."How," you ask?
Because, when the width of the Kos image is made equal to the width of the DeCosta image, the two heights match, as well as all of the other printed features of the COLB.
Also, for reasons stated in my blog story and above, there is no way on Earth that these two disparate images can be mirror images of each other, UNLESS one was forged from the other.
What makes this case even more compelling is that the arguments made by detractors who maintain that the Kos image is genuine, strengthen my forgey claims rather than negate them!
Even though I go into detail about how the other elements of the forgery were made, I have previously made a clone of the Kos image using the more recent Michele COLB image as a starting point, which sufficiently confirms the Kos image and its derivatives as being artificially "manufactured" rather than being genuine.
Although many people, besides myself, questioned the veracity of the Kos image from the first moment it was shown to the public on June 12, What is unique about my research is that, from the first posting I made, on June 20, to the last one today, my main focus has always been on the graphical anomalies of the text found in the Kos image.
As I came to learn, some of what I questioned on Day One turned out to be real components of the COLB, such as the OHSM 1.1 designation, the overlapping of the borders, and the Hawaii statute quoted.
Yet, I was dead right, from Day One, that the text on the kos image was graphically altered AFTER the image had already been created from an original.
Even though I've put the kabosh on the Kos image, I'm going to push the envelope further by demonstrating, step-by-step, how the Kos image was originally begun from the DeCosta image and then finished with the background taken from a second image.
So far, I'm the only one who has ever done that -- besides the forger, that is
Thanks for the info.
Then there is a misconception here. We were led to believe that the DeCosta image came after the Kos.
When you line up the two, I notice as you state, that the borders fit...BUT THE SEAL DOES NOT. Shouldn’t that line up also?