The Book Switch Theory

[eggyk]

He was state of the art. Since, when looking at the unaltered copies of the original, pre-treatment You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. name, we can clearly see the name there, I find it implausible that Wilfrid would not have noticed, then read, under bright lights (not "candles", they had very bright electric lights in the teens and twenties, of course), that name. Just like any person collecting anything... stamps, coins, paper currency, and books. And I know it was readable, I can see it now, right in front of me. All of us can. The very same thing he saw.

Well, my point is that it's not the very same thing he saw. Photographs and scans show things differently to both eachother and real life. Looking at an enlarged digital scan on a computer and equating it to the real look of the pre-chemical treatment signature isn't appropriate in my view. 

Here are the 3 examples from the link:

   

It's clear to see that even across these images that the signature is differently visible in each (the photograph is far less visible). We cannot therefore say with any certainty exactly how visible it was based on these images. To be clear, it may have been, but it also may not have been. We can't know definitively. 

Seperately, if the signature is a fake signature, what is the motive for chemically treating it? The signature looks to have not been altered during the process, so if it was freely visible beforehand why go through the effort?