New images: Marci letter wax

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Just FYI, I'll be at the Beinecke on Monday and will try to get a better image of the watermark as well as measure it. Ideally, they'll let me use a light table to image and measure the watermark, but I won't know if that will be possible until I get there. Stay tuned...

Well you are pretty familiar with the place of course, but perhaps there is a page lighting device kicking around somewhere. The LOC had one, which they let me use when I was looking for the watermarks on their copies of the 1475 Valturius. The device really took the fight out of it... it lit a translucent white sheet, using a light box (you can see sitting behind the volume) via a fiber optic cable, so that the sheet itself was not discernibly warmer than room temperature. 

   

I had jotted down the maker, and tried to find one online, but wasn't able to. I also thought about making one of my own, but never got around to tackling that project. But I would not be surprised if one of these is not sitting around in a storage room at the Beinecke somewhere... It can't hurt to ask. 

Rich