For single of the most foremost collections of autographs flash up Tommy Scullion; a calligraphic artist in his own right.

The surrogate signatures were hard to distinguish from the originals. Commonplace Douglas MacArthur rarely signed a WWII condolence letter personally and all of his letters to families were signed by lone of two assistants who tried hard to duplicate his signature but the "forgeries" were distinguished by an unusually high letter "l" and a Autographs skinny "D". MacArthur's Korean War-period condolence letters had pre-printed signatures.