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Notably, two examples on here were very clearly not in the famous persons hand. Marie Antoinette and Stephen Hawking.
by Aloha 8y ago
Notably, two examples on here were very clearly not in the famous persons hand.
Marie Antoinette and Stephen Hawking.
- ryanianian 8y agoWhy is it "very clearly" not theirs? Antoinette's is written with perfect-looking calligraphy; I suspect she was capable of that. And ya, the Hawking one is just his thumb-print but still kinda cool no-less and in a similar spirit to the others.
- GeorgeRichard 8y agoBecause the caption says "LETTER SIGNED TO FERDINAND IV, KING OF NAPLES, VERSAILLES, SEPTEMBER 24, 1788" (I am quoting verbatim, not shouting) rather than, for instance, the Proust example which is captioned "AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT DRAFT OF THE OPENING PASSAGE, CA. MARCH–APRIL 1913" where autograph means written in the author's own handwriting.