Talk:For Want of a Clue, Part 2/@comment-35774517-20180626033946/@comment-35774517-20180626182520

There's a longer/small streak on the tops/bottoms of the vellum on the left side, which helps disambiguate some of the more tattered ones. My guess now is that the 'b' strips are

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The bold ones are all the same shape, but it's hard for me to decide whether they are 'a' or 'b'.

This makes 12 strips: maybe these correspond with 12 hours?

Presumably this choice of exactly two patterns of strips (when you account for the degradation) is deliberate, and presumably these vellum are special in some way. Consider that A and B and a and b occur at the top of the page and are both complete, non-deteriorated strips, which provides an example on each page of what to look for.