The Chesley Mills signature chart.

Penmanship is one of my few talents and I keep the customers' signature book at the bank.

Her signature fixes itotherwise you're left out in the cold.

Yea if thee dost fix a slate so as to satisfy thyself thy friend will write on it and give thee a description of his birth into everlasting life ELIAS HICKS (In a very indistinct feminine hand.) cannot say wether we can procure the presence of any one just now that can write music were it possible to have any one conversant with it they could not only write one but many notes for you (Signature indistinct.)

This form of signature points to the period after 1520, a date manifestly inconsistent with the style of painting.

" "The scar I deny," he replied, unblushingly; "and as for the bit of paper, if you can find any one in these parts who can prove that the signature thereto was written by this hand belonging to this person now sitting before you, you will accomplish something more wonderful than finding me out here."