Some time ago, we visited the Lang Pioneer Village in Keen, Ontario, near the cottage. One of the buildings on the site was the printshop/newspaper and they were showing how ink was added to paper in the olden days. Each visitor could take a sample or two, of ink stamps printed onto paper bags.
I hung on to these bags for so long I had forgotten about them until my wife found them when we were doing some re-organizing. I didn't want to keep the bags any longer, but I didn't want to lose that bit of history, either. So I photographed both bags with my smartphone and used Lightroom and Adobe Capture to create vector images of the stamp.
The image on the left is a grayscale version of the photo, next to the vector version. On the far left are all the other elements that Adobe Capture was able to glean from that one photograph - a variety of fonts and even a glyph, no doubt Capture's attempt to recreate the wheat sheaves bordering the Mill's name.
