Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds

"Disputed Handwriting" by Jerome B. Lavay is a detailed study of how to spot fake handwriting, written in a time when signatures were key to business and banking. The book starts by showing why it's so important to make sure signatures are real and genuine. It explains how comparing a questionable signature to a real one can uncover clues, pointing out that even the best forgeries have mistakes that an expert can see. Lavay emphasizes that understanding the small details and the way a person writes is vital for finding forgeries and the book prepares readers to understand the more complex methods used to expose handwriting fraud.