Documents/Signatures Himmler help

[javierlorite]

Hi, I need help

I recently bought this lot of three papers from the same person who was in the German police.

I need your opinion of the documents and of Himmler's signature. it is right? fake? facsimile of epoch?













































Thanks

Javier

[Anderson]

I would say the Himmler signature is from a rubber stamp. Note the even tone across the signature, with no darker ink where the pen was pressed harder, or rested longer. During this era the use of signature stamps was common and a way to enable underlings to sign documents on behalf of their boss. And certainly routine promotions, of which there must have been hundreds if not thousands would be handled this way. For the high leaders this is likely to be usual practice.
As a further example my father was an autograph collector in the 1930's regularly writing to Hollywood stars asking for a mailed signature. Many he received back were stamped signatures on coloured paper, no doubt done by a secretary.

[bittaker]

"autograph collector in the 1930's ". I would have loved to see a real Buster Keaton signing (still one of my fave actors along with Mary Louise Brooks ).
Sorry, off topic.
Stig

[Adrian Stevenson]

While the technical points raised about the signature are correct, I think this is hand signed. Look again closely at the points where the lines cross, they are darker in places.

Facimile stamps are totally even in colour.

[reneblacky]

Depends on the stamp mold?

[Anderson]

I'm seeing a light signature where the ink doesn't reach the base of the paper. As if only lightly touching on the surface. All the other documents have signatures with deep full coverage, consistent with pens. Compare the Himmler example we are discussing with another Himmler signed document I've attached. The second document shows a well pressed pen, deeply inking the paper. A stamp can be applied lightly to paper.