Initially, Yale university did find a way to get photos of labels and
underlying information. Richard Warren and AAA were involved. You might
be able to get more information from Yale.
On 9/11/2016 10:35 PM, Inigo Cubillo wrote:
> Rainer, thanks. I am aware of all these methods. Another point is to have a
> good camera with which to take the images of such sometimes very tiny
> markings...! With the mobile phone it's impossible (already tried).
> Frustrating!
> I'm still convinced that a good hand drawing is the best...
>
> Saludos,
>
> Inigo
>
>> Inigo,
>> about copying runoff groove and sunken label information: Yes. tricky.
>> There are various ways to solve this
>> (1) photos taken at an angle, with light source from the side
>> (2) pencil rubbings on the label
>> (3) marking information with a white soft aquarellable pencil. They work
>> on paper, glass, plastic, metal - and shellac!
>> (4) scanning in grey tones (or in color, then removing the color
>> information) and/or reversing black-and-white scans.
>> Tricky indeed ...
>> I expect Hugo to attend the Hannover meeting.
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