Pope Signature ?

I have a copy of a book when the Pope John Paul 2 came to Ireland and I think the signature might be genuine looking to see other people opinion.

 

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It does look like his signature, but I haven't seen any example online with a space between the o and the a, and the 2 sigs I found with a date, have the month in Roman numerals, and the year in full, like this one:

And (not sure how to clearly explain this, but here we go...) the curl in "your" first A, seems to go from left to right, while the one in this signature comes from the right side.

But, based on my own signature, that doesn't mean much I "forge" my signature constantly, as they're never the same.

 

When you think of how many times he must have signed things, how rapidly he was probably doing it during tours, etc., I see no reason to think Brubaker's signature is not genuine, just more streamlined than the example shown by Marote. And besides, it says "Veritas" right below it.

 

There is a good chance that the signature is printed into the book, not hand signed by the Pope.

Here is another copy, with the identical signature and same placement on the page -

https://www.abebooks.com/Pope-Ireland-Addresses-Homilies-John-Paul/31119024600/bd

 

Yeah, I was going to say...many of these type of books have printed or auto-penned signatures so one should always look up other offerings.

 

The date in the book also has Roman numerals... I thought it was an 8, but it's an X for October