The Vinland Map, the Antoinette letters and the Maybrick diary.

[Pcdunn]

More ink testing might be informative, only if a) a different method is used than before, or b) the current owner will allow it.

Thoughts?

[Ozzy]

Had a bit of trouble pondering which sub-forum to stick this in, which will become clear.

In the last couple of days I've read about a couple of things concerning ink on old documents.

First there's the Vinland Map.

"The Vinland Map is a fake,” said Raymond Clemens, curator of early books and manuscripts at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, which houses the map. “There is no reasonable doubt here. This new analysis should put the matter to rest."

https://news.yale.edu/2021/09/01/ana...d-map-its-fake


There's also the Marie-Antoinette secret correspondence with Swedish count Axel von Fersen.

This methodology successfully revealed the redacted contents of eight letters, shedding new light not only on Marie-Antoinette and Fersen relationship but also on the author of the redactions.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abg4266

All this analysis of inks did make me think if anything could be determinded from the Maybrick diary using the tech used in these 2 examples.