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McQ
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 11/05/2006 : 20:25:58 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
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Other than finding the guys from the "Antiques Road Show" and having them look at it, I would suggest sending the scan to some universities with good antiquities departments, or researching the font type and type of paper it's on. Certain font types were used by Franklin and printers in colonial America, and the type of paper it is on will help date it. There is a chance that the tide tables might help in some way, but I think only NOAA might be of some help there.
Good luck, and sorry I don't have better advice than that.
McQ, I think looking through the Onion archives might be more productive than Antiques Roadshow inquiry. You might want to re-read it.
Ok, I won't be quite so dry the next time.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2006 : 21:46:27 [Permalink]
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McQ, if dry works for you, stick with it. 
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
510 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2006 : 23:19:37 [Permalink]
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You should send it to Joe Nickell.  Besides investigation paranormal claims for CSICOP he authenticates old documents. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2006 : 23:47:54 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ghost_Skeptic
You should send it to Joe Nickell. Besides investigation paranormal claims for CSICOP he authenticates old documents.
I'll be damned if I will! Such an evidence-based skeptical microfascist would only interpret my find through the thick and distorted lenses of his materialist-humanist scientific religion.
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