Yeah, but ink and paper - or vellum or lambskin - is a different matter.
Imagine trying to fake a copy of the Constitution with millions of people eagerly awaiting your forgery for inspection... it would take you 25 years to pull it off.
It’s ALL organic materials.
It can be done and it doesn’t even have to be done to fool a crack forensics team.
It *only* has to be good enough to pass a cursory visual inspection by people who wouldn’t know a forgery if it bit them in the ass.
They’re *not* gonna fake something up and hand it over to CSI DC, ya know.
They’re gonna make a passable forgery and the papers will post it as “real”.
Sheesh.
$25 will get you a new license and passport.
A couple thou handed over to the “right people” will buy you a whole new identity.
If you want to believe he can’t pull this off with very little effort, I’m not here to convince you otherwise.
Vintage paper of the era:
http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-ERASABLE-BOND-TYPING-PAPER-8-1-2-X-11-3-4BOX_W0QQitemZ160333212212QQ
Vintage Underwood ink rolls
http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-REMINGTON-TYPEWRITER-RIBBON-IN-BOX-UNDERWOOD_W0QQitemZ370143574795QQ
[although my ancient Underwood up in the attic could easily use “modern” ribbon since the spools remained virtually unchanged on the manual models]
See how easy it really is?