The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

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I cannot put this online due to copyright, but I can send out a few copies to interested people (PM me) as fair use.

I did not get any, but will continue to keep an eye on it. 
This tells me that this is not a topic of great interest, and I will gladly step away from this discussion now (again   ).

Hi Rene: The offer was appreciated, probably by all, but for myself, personally, I didn't respond to your offer for these reasons: You know, as we have discussed in private, that I am also very familiar with the Archaic Mark investigation and results. In fact, I think you brought it to my attention.

But also, I don't at all consider it relevant to the discussion of forgery/genuine as applies to the Voynich, or really any other such question about other items, not in the sense that you seem to be using it, at least. This, because I reject the claim that... and I am paraphrasing and reducing it here, correct me if I am inaccurate, "Since we found forgery C, or D, or E, by finding these problems, this means the Voynich must be real, because the Voynich does not have these problems".

But, among others, this is an argument of omission... because the Voynich has problem of anachronism and anomolies which may or may not be in the Archaic Mark, or any other forgery. And many forgeries DID use some or many or all perfect materials, and were only discovered by problems with others, or for other reasons. For instance, for ink alone, Mark Hofmann (Oath of a Freeman), Eric Hebborn (Old Master drawings), the Michigan Galileo, and many others, all used perfectly imitated inks for the era the forgers desired. So really, the Voynich ink is not even as good as the ink of these forgers.

So you or I finding and tallying up all the cases of other, unrelated cases of forgery, in order to somehow attempt to claim they have any power of determining whether or not the Voynich is fake or real, is not helpful to either case. We both know perfect materials can and have been used in forgeries, or should know, and this then obviates their use in either of our cases.