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Cmdr_Bond

Looking in the other thread about this, it seems there might be more of a physical link between the pictures and the text immediately left and under - I hope not. This is in reference to another puzzle, Masquerade, that I know nothing of...

missellen wrote: »

From wiki:


The solution to the Masquerade puzzle is both elaborate and elegant: in each painting, lines should be drawn from each animal's eyes through their longest digits to a letter in the border. The resulting letters form individual words, revealed either by anagramming or by applying the order hinted at by the Sir Isaac Newton painting, in which all of the creatures of the book are represented as puppets hanging in a line from left to right.
Decoding and following this method reveals the nineteen-word message:

CATHERINE’S LONG FINGER OVER SHADOWS EARTH BURIED YELLOW AMULET MIDDAY POINTS THE HOUR IN LIGHT OF EQUINOX LOOK YOU

Taking the first letter indicated by each painting, the acrostic “CLOSE BY AMPTHILL” is revealed. Properly interpreted, the message told to dig near the cross-shaped monument to Catherine of Aragon in Ampthill Park, at the precise spot touched by the tip of the monument’s shadow at the stroke of noon on the date of either the vernal or autumnal equinox.
Many additional hints and "confirmers" are scattered throughout the book. For example, in the painting depicting the Sun and the Moon dancing around the Earth, the hands of the two figures are clasped together, pointing at the date of the spring equinox.

Cmdr_Bond

I am hoping that it is just cryptic clues in the margins and no more. The story text in-between I believe is to link one clue to the next. Also I note that the first picture has a P in the bottom left, where the rest are numbered 1 through 11, giving 12 pictures in total (and 11 linking texts)

Marg2k8

I have read the story through and don't get it at all. My thoughts on the numbers and the P were like chapters of a book, with the P standing for Prologue.

ClosingTime

Just a thought for later musing.

The line up the side of the P stamp mentions 'Another first'....


'Our collection of King George V stamps reflects the fact that his reign saw many ‘firsts’ for British stamps. These included:

• The first commemoratives
• The first stamps printed by photogravure
• The first ‘postage due’ labels '

Also George V was an avid philatilist himself.