O. Rodiukova; H. Shovkova

Summary

The article presents the arguments in favor of the need to identify signs of artificial aged while conducting some types of technical examination of documents. An approximate list of features is presented, which are practically revealed in artificially aged documents by visual and microscopic methods. The objective criteria of the suitability of artificially aged documents for further research during the conducting of examinations concerning the establishment of absolute time and the sequence of application of the requisites in the documents are proposed.