L.C. BAKER
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Did not know him, but the thread is still alive. I am glad he made it so I could add an authentic coded letter to it.
Did not know him, but the thread is still alive. I am glad he made it so I could add an authentic coded letter to it.
Well, here ye go, bein tha helpful considerate guy I am I'll bump it fer ye so ye don't have ta wait fer another 10 years.
Maybe that feller he was talkin to will come ta yer rescue.
That was the K.G.C.s intention. To make you think harder than the average bear. 99.9% of the population would not have applied themselves to the task. Here is one that is not in BB's books. It is the first code in a series of codes that were left for us on a K.G.C. / O.A.K. treasure trail that started at Julius Sterling Morton's final resting place. My suggestion to you is to not quit learning and keep up the good work!
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I would rather see you add something of value to it instead of wasting peoples time.
That was the K.G.C.s intention. To make you think harder than the average bear. 99.9% of the population would not have applied themselves to the task. Here is one that is not in BB's books. It is the first code in a series of codes that were left for us on a K.G.C. / O.A.K. treasure trail that started at Julius Sterling Morton's final resting place. My suggestion to you is to not quit learning and keep up the good work!
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Where is the other pages with this letter. Nothing encoded in this letter page. He said he was enclosing a copy of the code with this letter. Do you have a copy of the code to be used? There is no Morriss Code in the letter only broken lines from faded ink.
I've got a couple true life examples of alleged KGC (or whomever these folks were) code somewhere in my boxes of old stuff - I'll see if I can find them and scan them. One is a Baconian coded letter given to me by my good old deceased mentor JW from Kansas - I can't remember the content offhand, but Baconian code is an interesting topic and a good way to hide things in plain sight.
The other is a nice fit to the idea of so-called "persher code" used by Poe and others - information hidden in the form of a narrative containing certain surnames, place names and/or a series of events that privileged folks recognize as important to them for some reason, but that the general public reads as ho-hum. Two meanings - one for those "in the know." This example is a local old newspaper article - an innocuous report of mining people in town to inspect a small up and coming mining district. These types of things were commonly found in the papers of the day in mining country. In this particular case, the article mentions a very minor, obscure and remote bunch of claims that, IMO, is coincidentally the exact site of an alleged coin meltdown operation following the 1933 Gold Act. I don't believe in coincidences, and although this alleged activity cannot be "documented" to Ol' Kentuck's standards, I can provide a mountain of circumstantial evidence that would likely arouse most peoples' curiosity.
I've got a couple true life examples of alleged KGC (or whomever these folks were) code somewhere in my boxes of old stuff - I'll see if I can find them and scan them. One is a Baconian coded letter given to me by my good old deceased mentor JW from Kansas - I can't remember the content offhand, but Baconian code is an interesting topic and a good way to hide things in plain sight.
The other is a nice fit to the idea of so-called "persher code" used by Poe and others - information hidden in the form of a narrative containing certain surnames, place names and/or a series of events that privileged folks recognize as important to them for some reason, but that the general public reads as ho-hum. Two meanings - one for those "in the know." This example is a local old newspaper article - an innocuous report of mining people in town to inspect a small up and coming mining district. These types of things were commonly found in the papers of the day in mining country. In this particular case, the article mentions a very minor, obscure and remote bunch of claims that, IMO, is coincidentally the exact site of an alleged coin meltdown operation following the 1933 Gold Act. I don't believe in coincidences, and although this alleged activity cannot be "documented" to Ol' Kentuck's standards, I can provide a mountain of circumstantial evidence that would likely arouse most peoples' curiosity.
Where is the other pages with this letter. Nothing encoded in this letter page. He said he was enclosing a copy of the code with this letter. Do you have a copy of the code to be used? There is no Morriss Code in the letter only broken lines from faded ink.
Sounds interesting, Kace is right...since ye've already prequalified them as "alleged", and speculative, I have no problem with tha lack of documentation. I'm all ears, go for it.
SD...No Worries Here....Just whenever you find them.
I like you're big filing bus! That's Pretty Cool.
Thanks for the links, interesting for sure...I'm a little bit familiar with the Kate Stevens and family story....That's a Big One!
Thanks Again!
Kace
She was a very capable woman and had some intriguing partners (Colonel Victor Hugo Duras, American Vice-Consul at St. Petersburg, Russia) and husbands (her last one was an Egyptian prince). Her father's life was certainly nothing to sneeze at either.