Best signature ever, at least in my eye

I like this one - the most expensive in the world apparently. I also like that he executes it differently every time.

The signatures are not recognizable.
Could you write them down?

It's William Shakespeare.

Trigger.

Did you read them out yourself when the signatures came to your eye for the first time?

Eh? Read them? If you mean write them, no, William Shakespeare did. Why would I write six versions of his signature?

Wait... is that Poe one above Poe's or your version of Poe's?

What's this thread for? Famous autographs or our attempts to replicate famous autographs (weird)?

Help.

Are you asking if iamsam was able to read them when he looked at the signatures?

If it's like Beth said, I'd searched them out on google, so I found what I'd set out to search for. I didn't have to read it.

I think oristarA wants to know if the writing is clear to you - that you would have recognized all of those as Shakespeare's signatures if you didn't already know what they were.

I think oristarA may like Poe's signature as it is a very clear, easy-to-read cursive.

I think that, having recognised the script and paper as antique, I could have recognised the last three of the six without much difficulty. The first three, not so much.

Thank you guys.

Some questions about the notes with the Shakespeare's signature:

1) Bellot-Mountjoy deposition, 12 June 1612, Natonal Archives, Kew

What does deposition mean here?

2) Blackfriars Gatehouse conveyance, 10 March 1613, Guildhall Library, London
Does "conveyance" mean "document effecting a property transfer"?

3) Second page of will (writing from line above removed)

"Line above removed"? Line removed is understandable, but "above"? Failed to understand that.

4) First page of will (from 1809 engraving, original lost through wear)

Through wear? Wear will ("death document")? It's confusing.

Best sig ever?

Cycloptichorn

What would a signature thread be without this one?



Can you read it, Ori?

In a similar vein, but about 500 years earlier.

King John, signing Magna Carta.

And here's William III signing the Bill of Rights in 1689.

John Hancock, of course.
It is too easy to baffle me.
It reminds me of superman Hancock, and it turns out to be a real superman of signature of the hostory of United States.

But what is confusing is the sign that directly lies beneth "John Hancock." What is that thing?

Better write down every letter and let us see what's on it.
Doubt you can do this...

A flourish.

This is the signature of the last German emperor with a flourish ...

... and in it an acronym/initial, to prove that's original (done at the "Großes Hauptquatier" [great headquarter] on July 16, 1917)

(Source: own it )