Signature Help? CDV

Has anyone tried the name J.J. Stollen Buffalo NY? I googled it and got something from the congressional record but it is sooooooooooooo tiny I can't read it...........

 

All I got was "Did you mean J Stalin?"

 

Here's the link to what I found - just nitoced that it has something to do with Merchant Sailing Vessels.

https://books.google.com/books?id=j...D#v=onepage&q=j.j. stollen buffalo NY&f=false

 

PS - I went with Stollen as it is not an uncommon name in the neck of the woods - or wasn't when I was younger...............

 

I'm seeing "J J Stofen".

 

I got nada for J J Stollen, though it does seem to fit the signature.

 

well, there's the proof that I am as blind (and dingy) as a bat....................

 

Oh, I know what you mean since I often I have to zoom in to make things out. One of these days I'll get new glasses!

 

Hahaha Love this thread! Don't ever worry about moving around topics! It all comes back around in the end!

Some people during this period just had some crazy handwriting!!

 

Not just "back then"............I have been using a pseudonym for well over fifty years, but I have to sign legal documents with my real name - and no one in the past fifty years has been able to figure out my real name due to my handwriting. Not by design, but by ineptitude and impatience with the length and difficulty with my name (over 100 letters with hyphens and umlauts, etc.)..........one reason that I am grateful for word processing programs............I even write grocery lists "on the computer".................

 

Oh my goodness... one hundred letters? That must have been tough to learn as a young child.

 

What the heck is an Umlaut ??

I used to sign 100 paychecks a week......& by the 60th ...even I could't recognize my siggy !

 

& my hand would cramp up !!!

 

Hi komokwa,
The umlaut is the two tiny dots above a vowel in Germanic languages. If you cramped up with 100 checks a week, think of 50 patient charts a day having to be written out and signed.
greg

 

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As greg said, the dots above the letters...

 

Yes that's a lot of writing.
The 100 checks ...were factory paychecks....so....all at once ...once a week.