Signature

Hi All

I’m looking to decipher the signature attached which comes from a portrait in a Victorian scrapbook I have recently acquired. Not thinking it is a known artist but can’t work out the letters in the name

many thanks

Paul

 

Welcome Paul.
MYE Dreis?

 

MYE Dec 15 (and then the year which is not ab;t tp be seen in full)

 

Dec 15./44 (or 42?).

 

That would be right. Early Victorian.

Debora

 

Ah! I agree the first number of the year is likely 4, but I really can't tell what the second is.

 

what does the watermark stamp say? Bottom left......

 

Excellent question.

Debora

 

Thanks everyone great replies
The scrapbook is dated 1861
See next pic I have found the owners family tree .. in part

 

We won't know what that watermark says unless Paul would like to post a better AND close-up image of it.....it sort of looks like a 'basket'....but here's also the full image of the next image Paul posted as well.....NICE lettering!



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Paul, fyi, it would have been helpful if you'd provided us with the scrapbook's presentation date in your initial post as well as posted an uncropped photograph of the signature along with a close-up photograph of the watermark. All of these provide context.

Debora

 

Water mark almost ineligible will post a pic anyway

 

I think it’s a coat of arms with a heraldic shield possibly flanked on either side by two creatures?

 

Thank you for your advice Deborah,

 

You might getting a better idea of the watermark if you hold it up to light or shine a flashlight from underneath.

 

Riddle solved Mary Yelverton Eden - M.Y.E Was the mother of the child who owned the book.
Thanks to you all for your help

 

Bigg-Wither?

Debora

 

That’s another mystery