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Folger Mysteries, September 2025 edition

Dear Collation readers: What’s going on with all of these dots? Leave your hypotheses in the Comments!

dots and slashes
dots and slashes
dots and slashes
dots and slashes
dots and slashes
dots and slashes

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An Elizabethan precursor of dominos?

Richard M. Waugaman, M.D. — September 9, 2025

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hore clues needed. dates . location found, etc

Gay F Gilbert — September 9, 2025

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Hi Gay, All will be explained next week, but in the meantime I can reveal that these are 16th century English manuscripts in the Folger collection.

Heather Wolfe — September 11, 2025

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Counting or account-keeping of some sort?

Deborah J. Leslie — September 12, 2025

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