Here http://www.geocities.com/jgroveuk/voynich/Column2.jpg is my best attempt at removing the blue paint from the column on f102v2, and revealing the markings beneath it. Personally I'm not convinced that the marks are numbers - they don't really look any more number-like to me than the marks in the rows above or below the blue paint, and when you consider the true size of the marks I think it's probable that we're just looking at bumps in the vellum, lumps in the ink, and artefacts of the image compression. But YMMV!
Cheers,
Jon.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan [mailto:hurychj@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 August 2004 01:48
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> Subject: Re: Re: VMs: Re: Re: Inks and retouching
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> Hello Nick,
> ======= At 2004-08-02, 19:40:00 you wrote: =======
>
> >Unless you're looking at different pictures from me, I think this is
> >probably just an hallucination, much like the apparent
> numbers in the
> >pharma jars (which are probably just a sequence of tiny
> imperfect circles,
> >added [as elsewhere] just for decoration).
>
> Well look here: http://hurontaria.baf.cz/numbers.htm and
> tell me those are not numbers and the blue
> color is not quite visible effort to hide them.
>
> Jan
>
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