The Boudinot Agency's document analysis process can extract physical and historical evidence from photographs, art prints, letters, books, and other paper-based documents. By carefully examining a document's historical content, provenance, diplomatics, printing characteristics, ink compounds and the paper itself, we can provide facts about an artifact's condition, age, origins and authenticity.
While much of the qualitative and quantitative investigations into chemical, physical, organic, and inorganic content, including fiber identification, pH and composition scans can be performed in-house, The Boudinot Agency can also provide secure transport to more advanced laboratories. Here we can provide the full gamut of sophisticated molecular spectroscopy examinations and external beam particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) and energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (XRF) scans for the analysis of inks.
The Boudinot Agency maintains a large library of paper and ink profiles from a variety of chronological periods, which coupled with our handwriting analysis and familiarity with linguistic styles from several historical periods allows us to cross-check document references against authentic historical writings and provide information as to its origin, and authenticity.