ALF BOXALL HANDWRITING COMPARISON
VERSE 70
The letter 'd' Verse 70
The Letter 'd' in Alf's Letter
The letter 'd' in Alf's questionnaire
Alf's Signature
This is an exercise first done about 10 years ago by the Adelaide Uni's Facebook page participants. You can see from this comparison at least that there is no similarity between the letter 'd' found in verse 70 and the letter 'd' as written by Alf Boxall.
'and' Symbol
Thanks to a very sharp-eyed commenter, see comments below, we have a further point of difference which is, though small, quite striking:
The comparison clearly shows the difference spelled out by our commenter, the symbol in Alf's letter sample appears to be up and loop left whilst the same symbol in verse 70 is clearly down and loop left.
In my view, that seals it, Alf did not write verse 70 in the book. He did, however, write the number 70 beneath the verse or at least we can say the number 70 was written after the Littlemore interview when the book was in his possession. These are facts based on physical evidence, not assumptions.
The image below is known as a 'Carolingian minuscule' conjunction. A form of an ampersand.
Many thanks to our anonymous commenter! Extremely well spotted!
Summation
I will first repeat that handwriting analysis is a specialised field and some would say that it is not a precise science. However, having looked at these examples and others over the years and recently, my vote is firmly against Alf Boxall having written verse 70 or any part of it aside from the number '70' written at the base of the transcription.
Below full documents from which Alf's writing samples have been taken and of course the Verse 70:
I think it's pretty clear that Alf's writing of the letter 'D' is entirely different to the same letter on Verse 70. Clive
ReplyDeletethere's some interesting similarities - some f's and the A in Aust vs And vs Alfred (ie the capital As).
ReplyDeleteBut....the formation of the '+' (and) is different - in v70 it appears to be down then loop left, while in the letter up and then loop left.
I think that's a significant difference - because it's something so hurried you write it sub-consciously and would do it the same each time.
That one character has me agreeing that the two texts are by different hands.
Many thanks for that, spot on!I have included some comparison images in the post above. That was really well spotted.
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