One of them, Professor Dr. Peter Gröschler (Chair for Civil Law and Roman Law, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz), explained that the signature is an old German style of script and that it reads "Maurer".
The handwriting is in the Sütterlin script, a style of German lettering no longer in use.
Black letter, also called Gothic script or Old English script, in calligraphy, a style of alphabet that was used for manuscript books and documents throughout Europe especially in German-speaking countries from the end of the 12th century to the 20th century.
Lettre françoise was another cursive black-letter style of script that was used in France during the Middle Ages.
The style of script that developed in northern France at the monastery of Corbie, a daughter house of Luxeuil, is especially noteworthy for the influence of half-uncial and uncial.
Written in a semi-gothic script, below top line, in a style of writing similar to that used by Coluccio Salutati; strong gothic influence in forms of majuscules.
— The Sumerians developed a writing system whose wedge-shaped strokes would influence the style of scripts in the same geographical area for the next 3000 years.
Which is me?" (Once, Mrs. Riggs, her English teacher, had returned a theme with the scribbled comment "Good. But why written in three styles of script?" To which Nancy had replied, "Because I'm not grown-up enough to be one person with one kind of signature").
In 1947, Hamburger wrote a Profile of Corwin in the style of a script for one of Corwin's orotund auditory dramas — along the lines of Wolcott Gibbs's send-up of Henry Luce and Time.
PROFILE of Norman Corwin (written in the style of a script for a radio drama).
