Show photography and counterfeit tle ingenious who in anted color photography has given the department of tho a big scare it ia recognized by he watchdogs of tho treasuries of tho horld that if his invention should get nto tho hands of counterfeit eis tho financial in ancial system of every nation em note as a circulating medium rould ho threatened photography has elways been tho bano of tho officials choso business it is to circumvent the of counterfeiters counterfeit ers and or tea years secret service agents the roald over havo hcan watching in tear ind trembling for alio invention of a proc ss which krould singly or iu combination om abo different colors and ints of alio leolar prism already counterfeiters are able by of photoengraving photo engraving processes to nake exact duplicates of tho backs of lill whether they bo in green blue lack or any other color but alic seals aid check numbers printed over the scroll work of the face in different cols have hitherto thwarted them they aavo been obliged to expunge these seals ind check numbers with lucida these icide naturally ruined tho scroll work ablow the overlaid colors leaving n icaco which tho rogues bad to rc cu ravo or put in with brush or pen the results of such primitive methods acro basily detected by experts but tho col photography opens immense possibilities in tho hands of clever men given paper of similar quality and they make paper that would deceive on expert there is nothing to prevent a skillful operator from producing aliso luto duplicates in such numb era as he may desire of any banknote extant in the circulation of tho world detroit free press |