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101 Sources of Handwriting Specimens

Jeanette L. Hunt, CDE, forensic handwriting expert, provides the following list of potential sources for handwriting samples for comparison.

  1. Account books
  2. Affidavits
  3. Assignments
  4. Autographs
  5. Automobile insurance papers
  6. Automobile license papers (MVA)
  7. Automobile title papers (MVA)
  8. Bank deposit slips
  9. Bank safe deposit entry slips
  10. Bank savings withdrawal slips
  11. Bank signature cards
  12. Bank statements, receipts for
  13. Bible entries
  14. Bills of sale
  15. Bonds
  16. Books, signatures of owners
  17. Building after hours registers
  18. Business license applications
  19. Charity pledges
  20. Checkbook stubs
  21. Checks, including endorsements
  22. Church pledges
  23. Convention registrations
  24. Contracts
  25. Cooking recipes
  26. Corporation papers
  27. Criminal records
  28. Credit applications
  29. Credit cards and charge slips
  30. Deeds
  31. Deeds of trust
  32. Depositions
  33. Diaries
  34. Divorce papers
  35. Dog license applications
  1. Drafts
  2. Drive-it-yourself applications
  3. Driver's licenses and applications
  4. Druggist poison registers
  5. Employment applications
  6. Envelopes, addresses
  7. Fishing licenses
  8. Funeral attendance registers
  9. Gas service applications
  10. Gate records at defense plants
  11. Greeting cards
  12. Hospital papers
  13. Hotel and motel guest registers
  14. Hunting licenses
  15. Identification papers
  16. Inventories
  17. Leases, real property
  18. Letters, personal and business
  19. Library card applications
  20. Light insurance papers
  21. Life insurance papers
  22. Loan papers
  23. Mail orders
  24. Manuscripts
  25. Marriage license papers
  26. Medical records/Medicare cards, papers
  27. Membership cards: social, occupation
  28. Memoranda of all kinds
  29. Military papers
  30. Mortgage papers
  31. Newspaper and magazine subscriptons
  32. Occupational writing
  33. Package receipts
  1. Parent signatures on report cards
  2. Partnership papers
  3. Passports
  4. Pawn tickets
  5. Payroll receipts
  6. Pension applications
  7. Permit applications
  8. Petitions, referendum, etc.
  9. Photograph albums
  10. Pleadings, civil and criminal
  11. Postal cards
  12. Probate court papers
  13. Promissory notes
  14. Property damage reports
  15. Receipts for rent
  16. Registered mail return receipts
  17. Releases
  18. Rental contracts for equipment
  19. Reports
  20. Sales slips
  21. School and college papers
  22. Social Security cards and papers
  23. Sport and game score cards
  24. Stock certificates, endorsements
  25. Surety bond applications
  26. Tax returns and estimates
  27. Telephone service applications
  28. Time sheets
  29. Traffic tickets
  30. Voter registration records
  31. Water company service applications
  32. Wills
  33. Workers Compensation forms

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