Help With Cel #

I concur that it's a 9 too. I used to be confused with their style of writing the numbers 7 and 9 but can now decipher them after spotting the trends within sequences in my collection

You guys sound like archeologists, detectives..
Or CSI =)

"Yes, I concur.. professor.." "I've gone through my records and this extract looks very familiar indeed..." "Yes, now that I've seen the light, pass the microscope this way please..." And you Holmes, what does Sherlock have to say? He says, "This is a known case of flip the nines" =)

Just ribbing you..:P

What expertise we have here! Why don't a few of you give a real seminar on Animation (anime) cels.. someplace..

YOu could call it "Celography" =)

It could be an official course at a community college.. I'm only half kidding.. It could probably fly if you had a good connection or proposal in some art department, under Pop Art and Culture, etc.

Oh well, it was an interesting idea anway..or a flight of fancy.. I have those often enough!

But anyway gentlemen, don't let my observations throw you off track... carry-on, carry-on...

"Very interesting", as Maxwell Smart might say..

heh heh, we do sound a little 'stuck up' don't we? Nah, I know what you mean E ^__^

Collectors like us tend to know quite a bit about our hobby through observation and experience. To justify spending so much on sheets of plastic and paper, it helps to know the subject.
Seriously, what you said about a college course really could work. It may be a fairly brief course (ie one semester) but it would work! History of anime/manga with info on cel manufacture, grading, IDing ;) and a tour around a Japanese/Korean studio to top it off... ahh the possibilities.

Hey-

Thanks alot for all the help. I guess I'll call it a B-19, unless someone else can prove otherwise. Sorry for the blurry/fuzzy shots. I don't have a scanner (gasp!) and those were taken with a rotten digital camera.

Remember that tv show "Quincy"? Jack Klugman was a coroner who used tiny clues to determine the cause of death. Maybe they could make a show about cel detectives. Or maybe..... an anime' about it.

Heh.
Thanks again to everyone...

Cat