To pair up images and determine if we have a match, we start with the notion of a finite number of communicators, which means they're bound to show up again and again.  We then look for unique differences, or "tells," between the various props which can be located reliably.  Fortunately for us in this task, within Wah's batch of ten comms, there are tells aplenty.

Below is a list of the most prominent and easy tells, and an example in each of how they worked to help us.  Please remember there are many more subtle tells that we must keep to ourselves for now.  But this list below should keep you busy for a while should you be so inclined to seek them out and do some matching of your own...

Note - many of the "wavy" moiré patterns can only be seen by the larger secondary lines formed when the curves bunch up, creating a larger, easier-to-spot linear concentration of black.

Jewel colors are typically seen only up close when other features can be seen as well.  But since the colors from one to the next are so different, they can help confirm or refute a match.

Note - The control plate, both the mic grill and the knobs, can be consistently counted on to have not been altered, so they can be valuable in confirming a match when their dimensions are distinctively far from average, like with Epsilon above.  (In the "prove us wrong" category, though, Epsilon has in fact been recently refurbished and the knobs were relocated.)

Note - this gets tricky, because the inside solder marks are often different from those seen on the outside.  You need to get just the right lighting for many to show up.  When you do get a match like in Kappa here above, though, it is a sweet thing!

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