Word: benjamin
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...revealing information can be found even in the letter of the alphabet that is simplest to reproduce: e. "You look at the size of the loop, the length of the elongation. Is it broad or narrow? Is the pressure greatest going up or down?" New York Autograph Dealer Mary Benjamin watches for ampersands, which, she says, she has never seen vary when made by the same hand...
...handwriting analysis should fail, the experts turn to tests of paper, ink and pens, such as those carried out by the West German Federal Archives last week. Here, too, experience and a keen eye for detail may prove sufficient to detect deceit. Benjamin notes that in the West parchment was used exclusively until about the year 1150. Next came two types of rag paper. One was laid paper, formed by being stretched across wires that left visible lines spaced about an inch apart. It was in common use until about 1800. The other was wove paper, in which the fibers...
...size of writing paper, since fashions here have also changed through the years. There have been customs too in how letters are folded. Watermarks placed in paper by manufacturers are carefully catalogued and thus can be traced to their origins. The wrong watermark can disclose a forgery. Benjamin and other analysts check the ink used on antique documents. Sometimes its very color is all they need to see. Ink made of ground carbon was used until 1020; it does not affect the color of the paper as it ages. But iron-gall ink, widely used until about 1860, is acidic...
Students advocating a boycott of Hovey products said they too doubt the sincerity of the company's move. They submitted a petition with 375 undergraduate signatures asking Harvard to discontinue its purchases from the company in Benjamin H. Walcott, assistant director of food services yesterday...
Federal Judge Pierre Leval, however, ruled two weeks ago that by publicly relying on the Benjamin study the network had forfeited any privilege it might have had. Said Leval: "CBS cannot at once hold out the Benjamin report to the public as substantiating its accusations and, when challenged, decline to reveal the report, contending that it is a confidential internal study utilized solely for self-evaluation and self-improvement...