101 Sources of Handwriting Specimens
Jeanette L. Hunt, CDE, forensic handwriting expert, provides the following list of potential sources for handwriting samples for comparison.
- Account books
- Affidavits
- Assignments
- Autographs
- Automobile insurance papers
- Automobile license papers (MVA)
- Automobile title papers (MVA)
- Bank deposit slips
- Bank safe deposit entry slips
- Bank savings withdrawal slips
- Bank signature cards
- Bank statements, receipts for
- Bible entries
- Bills of sale
- Bonds
- Books, signatures of owners
- Building after hours registers
- Business license applications
- Charity pledges
- Checkbook stubs
- Checks, including endorsements
- Church pledges
- Convention registrations
- Contracts
- Cooking recipes
- Corporation papers
- Criminal records
- Credit applications
- Credit cards and charge slips
- Deeds
- Deeds of trust
- Depositions
- Diaries
- Divorce papers
- Dog license applications
- Drafts
- Drive-it-yourself applications
- Driver's licenses and applications
- Druggist poison registers
- Employment applications
- Envelopes, addresses
- Fishing licenses
- Funeral attendance registers
- Gas service applications
- Gate records at defense plants
- Greeting cards
- Hospital papers
- Hotel and motel guest registers
- Hunting licenses
- Identification papers
- Inventories
- Leases, real property
- Letters, personal and business
- Library card applications
- Light insurance papers
- Life insurance papers
- Loan papers
- Mail orders
- Manuscripts
- Marriage license papers
- Medical records/Medicare cards, papers
- Membership cards: social, occupation
- Memoranda of all kinds
- Military papers
- Mortgage papers
- Newspaper and magazine subscriptons
- Occupational writing
- Package receipts
- Parent signatures on report cards
- Partnership papers
- Passports
- Pawn tickets
- Payroll receipts
- Pension applications
- Permit applications
- Petitions, referendum, etc.
- Photograph albums
- Pleadings, civil and criminal
- Postal cards
- Probate court papers
- Promissory notes
- Property damage reports
- Receipts for rent
- Registered mail return receipts
- Releases
- Rental contracts for equipment
- Reports
- Sales slips
- School and college papers
- Social Security cards and papers
- Sport and game score cards
- Stock certificates, endorsements
- Surety bond applications
- Tax returns and estimates
- Telephone service applications
- Time sheets
- Traffic tickets
- Voter registration records
- Water company service applications
- Wills
- Workers Compensation forms
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