Fig. 1: Finger-C2-Front
- Cloth: Heavyweight tan right twill
- Embroidery: Continuous loop silk
Fig. 2: Finger-C2-Reverse
- Back: Plain NO imprint with starch
Fig. 3: "Media Not Available"
- Minor variation: Swirl differences
Fig. 4: "Media Not Available"
- Back: Plain NO imprint with starch
Item Name: Fingerprinting 1938
Item ID: Finger-C2
Collector Rating: 1
Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge
Requirements February 1938 until December 1942
1. Take a clear and legible set of fingerprints, including the rolled and plain impressions on a standard 8 x 8 fingerprint card.
2. (a) Name the surfaces of the human body on which friction or papillary ridges are found. (b) Explain why plain impressions must necessarily be taken on a fingerprint card.
3. Show that he can identify the 9 pattern types in which Sir Edward Henry groups fingerprint patterns; collect a specimen of at least 6 of these types.
4. Give a brief history of identification by fingerprinting, and distinguish between civil identifications and criminal identification, pointing out the useful purposes served by each.
5. Obtain the fingerprints of 5 persons and present evidence that these fingerprints, together with complete descriptive data, have been accepted for the civil identification file.
Requirements December 1942 until September 1970.
1. Take a clear and legible set of fingerprints, including the rolled and plain impressions on a standard 8 x 8 fingerprint card.
2. (a) Name the surfaces of the human body on which friction or papillary ridges are found. (b) Explain why plain impressions must necessarily be taken on a fingerprint card.
3. Show that he can identify the 9 pattern types in which Sir Edward Henry groups fingerprint patterns; collect a specimen of at least 6 of these types.
4. Give a brief history of identification by fingerprinting, and distinguish between civil identifications and criminal identification, pointing out the useful purposes served by each.
5. Obtain the fingerprints of 5 persons and present evidence that these fingerprints, together with complete descriptive data, have been accepted for the civil identification file.