Page 24 - Faking the original Spare
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There are so many copies of the Andrew/Giuffre photograph in circulation,
without a negative it is difficult to prove an original. I personally have
created over sixty copies for the production of this book. To find the truth
I shall only concentrate on the copy produced by Thomas for The Mail on
Sunday.
Thomas is photographed in his hotel room holding the original photograph
of Andrew/ Giuffre which featured in The Mail on Sunday news story.
There are things about this photograph also which are not quite right. The
fingers do not appear to be holding the photograph. Also the photograph
Thomas is holding has been cropped on the left hand side.
(Please see Fig. 12)
I have enlarged the photograph and have discovered the photograph has a
border on all four sides of the photograph. Where the white boarder overlaps
Thomas’s dark suit; instead of standing out in bright white it disappears into
the same colour as Thomas’s suit. (Please see Fig. 13).
The border surrounding the original photograph in the Mail on Sunday’s
video (Please see Fig. 11) is three times wider than the borders on the
photograph Thomas is holding (Please see Fig. 12).
Where the border has been removed at the bottom of the photograph is also
where there was a white gap in Andrew’s trousers; suggesting this was the
reason for the removal of these two borders.