How to Analyze Handwriting in Signatures

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"Hi, I am Carmen Lynne, with Expert Village, so now leading on from where we were before with signatures, what I would like to do is show you sample signatures of some famous people and see what we can analyze from that. So as you can see a lot of these signatures of famous people are underscored and that is a great indication that this is a special person or an important person, or that's how they consider themselves. Mark Twain?s signature has a kind of waving line underscore, and waving lines, as I may have mentioned before, indicates humor. Ok, Elizabeth R., that means Elizabeth the first, of England, see how proud her signature is there. As you can see this signature here, slopes a little upward from the rest of the writing, and you might remember that indicates optimism, so this person, is also wishing to appear using a little more optimistic than they really are. This person is very optimistic, you can see how that slopes upward and also very confident, it's fairly large writing and it's underscored. This one again has an underscore, and you see that this underscore actually looks a little bit like a dollar sign on it's side, so what would that indicate? This person is fairly concerned about money. And this one even more, and the writing itself is really angular and you have got this very ornate kind of underscoring here. This it doesn't have an underscore but what it has is very long dynamic t stem, a t bar, I should say, its crossing over, see how it goes over the whole of the name. And this one is very interesting, he has actually crossed himself out, with his signature and what that indicates is, somebody who is almost trying to cross himself out, in and occasionally you might see this is somebody's signature, this is actually somewhat of a, this could be a challenging sign. If you see this in someone?s signature this indicates there is something about them where they have crossed themselves out. And if this is something you do, I would advise you to stop doing it."