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Post by craigrj on Oct 16, 2016 18:42:43 GMT -5
If your postcards All have holes in Could it be that The holes are in different places, making your postcard and page combination unique
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Post by helenahandbasket on Oct 16, 2016 18:57:03 GMT -5
If your postcards All have holes in Could it be that The holes are in different places, making your postcard and page combination unique It's possible, of course, but I think that would be absolutely unmanageable, from a fulfillment perspective. And, speaking for my own box, The cut out postcard and the book page absolutely do not work together, I'm inclined to think that the postcard is something that will become important later. I won't rule out a book cipher for later -- but still, a unique cipher for each subscriber would be ridiculous to manage. Edit: Craigrj, are you a subscriber to Haunted Dollhouse? The comment/question sounds like you haven't actually seen the objects in question.
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Post by tanders on Oct 16, 2016 19:14:18 GMT -5
The only diff in tanders list and mine is that I have 3 tiny pictures (not including the one in the frame), two are obviously scenic, but the third one, the smallest one, is really quite impossible to make out (but my eyes aren't what they used to be). I agree with the observation about the book pages not being identical, mine is from a novel, so we aren't getting identical book pages. It doesn't mean that the object (an old page itself) isn't important, just that the text isn't important? OK so... I did find the extra photo. It appears to be of a girl with her arms spread out.
Also, the book page I got is a chapter called "The Poor Girl and the Angels."
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Post by flightoffancy on Oct 16, 2016 19:18:11 GMT -5
I received the same articles and my page is a text about language syllables. The page is numbered 25 and 26. The three miniature pictures I got were a ship, a landscape and the third is a girl chained to a brick wall.
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Post by helenahandbasket on Oct 16, 2016 19:19:01 GMT -5
tanders, I got the same book, pp 141-142 -- yours? It doesn't change the fact that other people have different books/pages, tho...
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Post by tanders on Oct 16, 2016 19:23:07 GMT -5
tanders, I got the same book, pp 141-142 -- yours? It doesn't change the fact that other people have different books/pages, tho... Ours was page 139-140!
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Post by helenahandbasket on Oct 16, 2016 19:30:33 GMT -5
OK, so it can't be the text on these pages. Maybe it's the paper itself -- black light anyone? Invisible ink?
It's possible that it's just 'ambience' -- but she hasn't really done that, except for the packing filler.
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Post by thegenii on Oct 16, 2016 19:33:43 GMT -5
Now this is all very helpful. I, too, received three tiny pictures in the box. I must inventory the rest against Tanders' list! Most helpful Tanders!
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Post by thegenii on Oct 16, 2016 19:43:03 GMT -5
It might be helpful to note that in Disney's Ghost Post subscription this past summer, which consisted of three boxes mailed a month apart, there was an advertisement which had a similar series of holes to the postcard. The following month you received something over which the postcard could be laid and a message was revealed through the holes. I believe this to be similar. (And of course it is an ancient idea, probably first used by spies to hid secret codes.)
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Post by eclosis on Oct 16, 2016 20:13:45 GMT -5
try lining the postcard up with the writing lesson paper
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Post by Virginia R Hall on Oct 16, 2016 22:19:32 GMT -5
FWIW, my page seems to be taken from Dew-Drops Of The Nineteenth Century: Gathered And Preserved In Their Brightness And Purity (1846), pages 157-158, a piece called "Squando, The Indian Sachem". It says it's "historically true" but it's really an awful story, written in a historically racist way. It's possible that the pages are just for 'flavor', torn from books of the time without any real knowledge of the contents, but it's still off-putting--especially because everything else indicates that Lady Delaney pays close attention to detail. Although, there's also a mention of a [offensive term for an African-American person] on the back of the first newspaper we received, so who knows?
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Post by flightoffancy on Oct 16, 2016 22:40:20 GMT -5
FWIW, my page seems to be taken from Dew-Drops Of The Nineteenth Century: Gathered And Preserved In Their Brightness And Purity (1846), pages 157-158, a piece called "Squando, The Indian Sachem". It says it's "historically true" but it's really an awful story, written in a historically racist way. It's possible that the pages are just for 'flavor', torn from books of the time without any real knowledge of the contents, but it's still off-putting--especially because everything else indicates that Lady Delaney pays close attention to detail. Although, there's also a mention of a [offensive term for an African-American person] on the back of the first newspaper we received, so who knows? I don't think it's significant. My page is from a book called Analysis of Rhetorica.
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Post by amanda on Oct 16, 2016 23:38:48 GMT -5
My version of the page has a couple of deliberate-looking notches in the torn side. If others have this too, they might be worth comparing to see if they are the same distances and depths. There's an oval stain too, at the top, but that seems less likely to be meaningful..
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Post by craigrj on Oct 17, 2016 2:28:25 GMT -5
If your postcards All have holes in Could it be that The holes are in different places, making your postcard and page combination unique It's possible, of course, but I think that would be absolutely unmanageable, from a fulfillment perspective. And, speaking for my own box, The cut out postcard and the book page absolutely do not work together, I'm inclined to think that the postcard is something that will become important later. I won't rule out a book cipher for later -- but still, a unique cipher for each subscriber would be ridiculous to manage. Edit: Craigrj, are you a subscriber to Haunted Dollhouse? The comment/question sounds like you haven't actually seen the objects in question. I am, just in the UK, no sign of anything here yet (for me)....
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Post by tanders on Oct 17, 2016 6:39:30 GMT -5
try lining the postcard up with the writing lesson paper I did what you said with these two items but found nothing special. Is there a trick to this?
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