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of stamp fluorescences I had obtained from my first
batch of stamps. Although, as shown in Figure 3, the
range of stamp fluorescences ranges from “E-Dead”
to the “E-8” level on this envelope scale.
From these results, I concluded that the fluorescences
of both stamps and envelopes tend to
match on my nominative “E” scale. But probably
more importantly I observed that envelopes displaying
“E-None” fluorescence under ultra-violet
light, produced stamps that display a full range
of fluorescences from E-Dead up to an E-8 level
of fluorescence. From this, dare I hypothesize that
the fluorescence of the stamps is a property of the
stamp paper and not an arbitrary source of contamination
from contact with the envelopes? By
soaking the remainder of the stamps from their
pieces I can confirm of reject this hypothesis.
As I soaked each batch of stamps from each
of the individual envelope fluorescence groups,
I found the initial pattern of varying stamp
fluorescences repeating. Each distinct fluorescence
group of envelope created a full range of
stamp fluorescences from “E-Dead” through
“E-8”. After soaking all 868 stamps from 856
envelope pieces, the quantities of stamps in
each stamp fluorescence level shown in Figure
4 emerged.
Table 1 shows the specific quantities, and total
percentage ratios, of stamps displaying each level
of fluorescence as obtained from each specific
group of envelope fluorescence.
I next soaked the stamps from the coloured,
manila and from the white envelopes with the
coloured interiors I had previously set aside. This
again produced similar results: a full range of
stamp fluorescences “E-Dead” through “E-8”, from
the diversity of coloured envelopes. Quantities and
percent ratios are shown in Table 2.
Envelope Stamp Fluorescence For Stamps From White Envelopes Of Known Envelope Fluorescence Total
Fluorescence Quantity E-Dead E-None E-1 E-2 E-3 E-4 E-5 E-6 E-7 E-8 Stamps
E-Dead 37 1 4 6 3 0 4 5 5 5 4 37
E-None 191 19 54 34 3 6 6 14 25 15 15 191
E-1 43 1 3 7 4 2 7 12 6 1 0 43
E-2 11 1 2 1 2 0 1 1 2 1 0 11
E-3 18 1 1 5 0 2 2 5 2 0 0 18
E-4 32 1 1 4 0 4 4 5 4 5 4 32
E-5 125 2 22 28 2 4 19 11 22 16 0 126
E-6 147 10 36 34 3 6 5 17 20 12 11 154
E-7 106 6 22 7 22 1 4 10 24 7 7 110
E-8 50 3 8 3 8 2 4 6 1 8 7 50
E-9 31 1 4 2 1 1 0 9 5 4 4 31
E-10 34 2 5 10 0 1 0 9 7 0 0 34
E-11 15 1 2 4 0 1 4 2 0 1 0 15
E-12 16 1 1 5 2 1 2 1 3 0 0 16
Total 856 50 165 150 50 31 62 107 126 75 52 868
100.00% 5.76% 19.01% 17.28% 5.76% 3.57% 7.14% 12.33% 14.52% 8.64% 5.99% 100%
Table 1.
Envelope Stamp Fluorescence For Stamps From Coloured Envelopes Total
Colour Quantity E-Dead E-None E-1 E-2 E-3 E-4 E-5 E-6 E-7 E-8 Stamps
Dark Brown 103 4 10 7 23 8 8 7 30 12 8 117
Manila 10.11% 3.42% 8.55% 5.98% 19.66% 6.84% 6.84% 5.98% 25.64% 10.26% 6.84% 100%
Light Brown 248 8 25 16 54 8 11 18 19 34 55 248
Manila 24.34% 3.23% 10.08% 6.45% 21.77% 3.23% 4.44% 7.26% 7.66% 13.71% 22.18% 100%
White 412 4 12 61 19 24 27 57 67 84 57 412
Assorted 40.43% 0.97% 2.91% 14.81% 4.61% 5.83% 6.55% 13.83% 16.26% 20.39% 13.83% 100%
White/Blue 92 1 3 22 9 5 12 15 6 11 8 92
Assorted 9.03% 1.09% 3.26% 23.91% 9.78% 5.43% 13.04% 16.30% 6.52% 11.96% 8.70% 100%
Various 164 15 18 52 6 3 14 34 23 28 0 193
Colours 16.09% 7.77% 9.33% 26.94% 3.11% 1.55% 7.25% 17.62% 11.92% 14.51% 0.00% 100%
Total
1019 32 68 158 111 48 72 131 145 169 128 1062
100% 3.01% 6.40% 14.88% 10.45% 4.52% 6.78% 12.34% 13.65% 15.91% 12.05% 100%
Table 2.
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