Forgery

A. Top of the letter analysis

1. Sign your name on a sheet of writing paper, and get someone else to try to copy it.
2. Place the tracing paper over both signatures, and make a dot at the top point of each letter – for both signatures
3. Join up the dots for both signatures to get two zigzag lines across the signatures. Are the lines the same?

B. Bottom of the letter analysis

4. Put some fresh tracing paper over both signatures.
5. Put a dot at the bottom of each letter.
6. Join up the dots to make zig zag lines. Are the lines the same

C. Slant Analysis

7. Put a fresh piece of tracing paper over both signatures.
8. Mark a vertical line down through the middle of each letter (using a ruler), slanting it in the same direction as
the letter.
9. Compare the set of lines for both signatures. What do they tell you.

 What was used to do the writing – eg ink,
ball point pen, etc
 The size of letters
 The way the lines form the letters
 The slant of the letters - forwards,
backwards or straight up and down
 Ornaments such as circles over letters
 Spaces between letters and words, and
within words
 How the writer dot their i and cross their t
 Spelling, punctuation, and grammar
 Stems on letters such as y, g, p
 How high up tall letters go eg t, h, l
 Loops
 Line spacing
 Pressure used to make the letters




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