[markomalley]

Here's the forgery with about a -0.5gamma on it to bring out the shadows (and Dutch security markings):

Here's the document in this thread with the same amount of gamma applied. At least no security markings on this one:

No great revelation, but I know folks had been talking about it and I figure that it would be helpful for them to see the security markings for themselves.

[TChad]

Thanks.

[1951Boomer]

I haven’t seen this addressed anywhere: How long has the number 7 typically had a line through it to insure that it is read as a seven and not something else? I notice this in the BC application number. How far back does this practice go? I never really paid attention to this little trick until I noticed that my mathematician husband always puts a line through his sevens. Guess I could ask him.

[NewLand]

Have you seen all this?

[Lexinom]

That first document is obviously computerized text overlaid on a paper background. Just compare the wrinkledness of the paper with the straightness of the lines forming the boxes. The Dutch text in the background is humourous.

No one should still be debating the authenticity of the first document.

The second one is a genuine photograph of a document - of some kind. There are questions about it - at this point, I'm agnostic on its authenticity. I'm not at all concerned by the "coincidental" number of 47,044, as it is entirely plausible in light of average population growth/birth rate between 1960 and 1970 of approx. 25,000 births a month over two months (since independence on 10 December 1963). HOWEVER... we need to verify the capacities of E. F. Lavender, M. H. Miller, and Joshua Simon Oduya in February 1964.