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Disputed Handwriting - An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds by Jerome B. Lavay
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Ink--How to Detect the Use of Different Inks--Sized Papers Not Easily
Altered--Inks That Produce Chemical Effects--Inks That Destroy Fiber
of Paper--How to Test Tampered or Altered Documents--Treating Papers
Suspected of Forgery--Using Water to Detect Fraud--Discovering
Scratched Paper--Means Forgers Use to Mask Fraudulent Operations--How
to Prepare and Handle Test Papers--Detecting Paper That Has Been
Washed--Various Other Valuable Tests to Determine Forgery--A Simple
Operation That Anyone Can Apply--Iodine Used On Papers and Documents--An
Alcohol Test That is Certain--Bringing Out Telltale Spots--Double
Advantage of Certain Tests--Reappearance of Former Letters or
Figures--What Genuine Writing Reveals--When an Entire Paper or Document
is Forged.


The art of detecting forgery or fraud, in checks, drafts, documents,
seals, writing materials, or in the characters themselves is a study
that has attracted handwriting experts since its study was taken up.
There are almost infallible rules for the work and in this chapter is
given several new methods of research that will prove of the utmost
value to the public.

It is not an uncommon occurrence that wills and other public documents
are changed by the insertion of extra or substituted pages, thereby
changing the character of the instrument. Where this is suspected
careful inspection of the paper should be made--first, as to its shade
of color and fiber, under a microscope; second, as to its ruling;
third, as to its water-mark; fourth, as to any indications that the
sheets have been separated since their original attachment; fifth, as
to the writing--whether or not it bears the harmonious character of
the continuous writing, with the same pen and ink, and coincident
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