Barry's Version looks nothing like this
Decosta Short Form COLB:
http://s305.photobucket.com/albums/nn227/Polarik/?action=view¤t=doc_decosta_pat_birth.jpg
Looking at his version, you can not even come close to reading the state seal of HI (like you can this one) cause it's not there.
No, it's there. Again, you can see it without image enhancement in the high resolution images. It's not as obvious, but it's there. And there's nothing unusual about it not being so obvious. It's all about the scanner and scanner settings.
Here, take a look at this. This is a scanned image of a genuine Hawaiian COLB provided to Polarik by a woman named Michelle. The image is located on Polarik's own PhotoBucket album:
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn227/Polarik/MCOLB-80-50.jpg
Where's the seal? Do you see it? Is this a fake COLB?
No. Just that the particular scanner and settings used to do this scan didn't pick up the seal. To pick up the seal, shadows have to be created, and the light source on this scanner was pretty direct so it didn't create sufficient shadows that could be picked up by the scanner.
When this scan was made available to the public, someone suggested that Michelle go over the seal with some pencil lead to make it visible.
Here's the subsequent scan, showing the seal. Again, this image is right there on Polarik's Photo Bucket album, and I was there when this whole thing was going on.
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn227/Polarik/SKMBT_C45008071717410.jpg
There's no official state seal on Barry's version on any of his friendly web sites. I've provided the images. You can clearly see what they are trying to pass off as the state seal is 1) totally illegible, no reference to state of HI and 2) who know what COLB that came from because in that very high res shot of the fake seal, you can't tell who's COLB it's on.
