Disputed handwriting

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II FORGERY BY TRACING Forgeries Perpetrated by the Aid of Tracing a Common and Dangerous Method — Using Transparent Tracing Paper — How the Movements are Directed — Formal, Broken and Nervous Lines —Retouched Lines and Shades — Tracing Usually Presents a Close Resemblance to the Genuine — Traced Forgeries Not Exact Duplicates of Their Originals — The Danger of an Exact Duplication — Forgers Usually Unable to Exactly Reproduce Tracing — Using Pencil or Carbon-Guided Lines — Retouching Revealed under the Microscope — Tracing with Pen and Ink Over a Transparency — Making a Practice and Study of Signatures — Forgeries and Tracings Made by Skilful Imitators Most Difficult of Detection — Free-Hand Forgery and Tracing — A Few Important Matters to Observe in Detecting Forgery by Tracing — Photographs a Great Aid in Detecting Tracing — How to Compare Imitated and Traced Writing — Furrows Traced by Pen Nibs — Tracing Made by an Untrained Hand — Tracing with Pen and Ink Over a Transparency — Internal Evidence of Forgery by Tracing — Forgeries Made by Skilful Imitators — How to Determine Evidences of Forgery by Tracing — Remains of Tracings — Examining Paper in Transmitted Light — Freely Written Tracings — A Dangerous Method of Forgery. Forgery by tracing is one of the most common and most dangerous methods of forgery. There are two general methods of perpetrating forgeries, one by the aid of tracing, the other by free-hand writing. These methods differ widely in details, according to the circumstances of each case. Tracing can only be employed when a signature or writing is present in the exact or approximate form of the desired reproduction. It may then be done by placing the writing to be forged upon a transparency overa strong light, and then superimposing the paper u...