Posted on 06/25/2021 8:08:02 PM PDT by MAGA2017
I don’t know about the paper. But there is such a thing as waterproof ink. Maybe the ink and paper were specially chosen.
I don’t know a lot about ink. A lot of texts on papyrus from ancient Egypt have been found somewhat readable; but they were in very warm, dry areas.
Was there waterproof ink in 1926?
Whiff, whiff, sniff, sniff... Yeah it stinks of manure alright.
Sounds like a sea story. Did she start by saying “Now this is no $hit!”
But still drinkable, right?
Regards,
I thought it would say, re the stock market, “SELL NOW”!
This is going in my book, Astonishing Tales of the Cheboygan River.
[Austin is not happy with Bush]
Some of us aren’t either, after his 2nd term.
:/
Another MI liberal who can’t afford to be honest or a responsible small business owner who just happened to stumble into something of an historic artifact?
I was thinking of that song too lol
Help! Ginger and Mary Ann keep hitting on me!
“Epstein didn’t kill himself”
Look the guys family up and see if any old letters/ documents are around and compare hand writing. But I agree the paper would be pulp after a few weeks.
Yeah, it's called a pencil.
Bottle has aged but paper has not. Fake.
LOL. Knew I would see that within the first few posts. My sister-in-law’s phone was stolen last week. She was up and running in a few days with a new one, same number. That line was the first thing I sent her....I think she assumed it was a “real” text from a scammer. 😂
Now a possibility is that the bottle was filled with sand, thus removing any air, to make the bottle sink. I didn't see anything in the article that stated that, but then again I didn't really read the article. 8>) I merely went in, to find the note picture and post it.
So, I will wait and see what becomes of this story. 8>)
India Or Chinese black ink predates the Christian Era for thousands of years and is waterproof.
Not a high tech item.
Before the digital printing age it was the archival ink of choice, and mandated by government agencies and the corporate world for permanent originals and record copies.
Back in the day DC public school classes required all homework and tests required the use of waterproof ink. Early ball point ink was unacceptable because it smeared. In jr HS mechanical drawing class drawings were laid out light in pencil and final line work was done in India ink. Higgins was the cheap government contract stuff. Pelikan and Koh-i-noor were the choices of pros.
As an aside, the Mech Drawing classes REQUIRED that we had a pocket knife to sharpen wooden pencils and to have a supple of single edged razor blades. Razor was used to scrape off small errors such as small ink blots, over runs of line work. The ink was slowly and careful scraped off the paper which was then burnished with a glass marble to make the rough paper fibers smoothed and prevent bleeding of the ink.
If you had buddies in your class you carried a extra marble for the times they had “lost their marbles”.
I know, I know...more than you needed to know.
;>)
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