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To: Salamander

Honey, you can’t just fresh-print up stuff with oldnew ink and pass it off as being 48 years old.

The artifact here is the ink, even pen signature ink the Doctor or Nurse or Administrator used 48 years ago.

Which would probably be three separate inks (pens), as patient chart sign-offs happen not simultaneously... more likely 2 or so hours apart.


69 posted on 05/07/2009 10:38:30 PM PDT by txhurl (fish are fixin' to fear me....)
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To: txhurl

Vintage ink is plentiful.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sheaffer-Ink-Vintage-Four-4-Bottles_W0QQitemZ260403191000QQ

[that’s one auction out of about 1600]

The creep in chief was born a mere 5 days after me and I know that fountain pens were still commonly in use at the time.

My mom used to bring home the old ones from “Sinclair Oil” where she worked as a secretary.

The point I am trying to make is that stuff that is already “old” is out there and would pass any casual “sniff test”.

Your first assertion is why I posted a government website about “faking” old documents.

People can artifically age oil paintings well enough to fool the Louvre experts and you think a lousy sheet of paper is undoable?

I’m giving up trying to make you understand what is capable of being done.

Good night.


75 posted on 05/07/2009 11:03:16 PM PDT by Salamander (Cursed with Second Sight.)
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To: txhurl

We have a winner. We would want proof of provenance and your post would only be the beginning.


81 posted on 05/07/2009 11:27:14 PM PDT by Vendome
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