FSC239Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cheque, Visible Spectrum, Stereo Microscope
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Conducts a technical examination of a document to determine its authenticity and/or. Notebooks, diaries, address books, cheques, correspondence, application forms. Identification: the combination of similarities points strongly towards two or more. Practical certainty- since it is not possible to collect and examine samples of everyone"s handwriting it is not possible to make identification. A difference in some natural feature that is indicative of a person"s writing habit and whose presence cannot be reasonably explained. The identification of signatures involves a combination of writing quality and letter design. Requires an awareness of own writing habits and which ones make your writing unique. Requires you to consistently eliminate yours own habits. Not done at cfs not yet scientifically proven to our satisfaction. Relative dating only using sequence of strokes or by eliminating a suggested date using other means (water marks on paper, ink technology)
