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Title: The Detection of Forgery
A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors,
Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents

Author: Douglas Blackburn
Waithman Caddell

Release Date: May 20, 2008 [EBook #25532]

Language: English

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THE
DETECTION OF FORGERY.

A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK
FOR THE USE OF
BANKERS, SOLICITORS, MAGISTRATES' CLERKS,
AND ALL HANDLING SUSPECTED DOCUMENTS.

BY
DOUGLAS BLACKBURN
(_Late Expert to the Natal Criminal Investigation Department,
and the Transvaal Republic_)

AND
CAPTAIN WAITHMAN CADDELL.

LONDON:
CHARLES & EDWIN LAYTON,
FARRINGDON STREET, E.C.
1909.

ERRATUM. (_Page 15._)

Owing to the averages given in the table on page 15 being printed from
some incomplete manuscript they are incorrect. It is obvious that the
proper averages are--

| 7-1/4 | 6-1/2 | 5-3/4 | 7-1/2 || 16-1/4 | 21 | 20-3/4 | 20-3/4

Transcriber's Note:

The corrections in the above erratum have been applied. The
handwritten pages entitled 'Terminology' and 'Alphabet Variants'
have been moved to the beginning of their relevant chapters. Greek
text has been transliterated and is shown between {braces}.
Hyphenation and punctuation have been standardised.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

INTRODUCTION 5

I.--THE PRINCIPLES OF HANDWRITI