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To: john in springfield


That is a pretty good match! Only obvious difference to me is that the animals on either side are less upright. But it's a satisfactory match. Glad I found the official South Australian seal of 1934.

Now let's see if we can do anything with the Kenyan seal, even though it is terribly indistinct on the doc.

Could you attempt to compare this seal and see how it looks against the seal on the doc? Obviously the big problem of overlaying an oval on a circle, but can anyone see any similarity? I understand that they may have had a completely different seal than the one I'm putting up but at least it's something to try.


599 posted on 08/05/2009 11:40:46 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Mount Athos
Honestly, I can't make much of the "Kenyan seal." There's just not enough detail. It might be the seal you posted. It might be the back of a Sacajawea dollar coin. It might be something else. I just can't tell.

In fact, the more I look at it, the more plausible it seems it was done with a coin.

If we assume the paper width at 8.5 inches (American!) then I measure the circle at around 28 mm. This is a bit bigger than a Sacajawea dollar, and smaller than a Kennedy half dollar.

If you've visited overseas, you may realize that other countries have different paper sizes. Australia apparently has the same size as Europe.

Assuming that paper size, I get a slightly smaller circle of approximately 27 mm. This is almost exactly the size of a Sacajawea dollar.

607 posted on 08/06/2009 12:35:47 AM PDT by john in springfield (One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such things.No ordinary man could be such a fool.)
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To: Mount Athos

Oh, and I was going to say that the other thing clear about the “Kenyan seal” is that it’s quite a bit smaller than the Australian one.


608 posted on 08/06/2009 12:40:37 AM PDT by john in springfield (One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such things.No ordinary man could be such a fool.)
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