Help with SS signature

[Bobbe]

Hi,

please can you help me with this signature?

It should be from an officier of the 17 SS in service in October 44.

Could it be the SS-Standatenfurer Mertsch?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Roberto

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[N.C. Wyeth]

Hello Bobbe!

On first glance, looks like "Willrich" to me . . . may not make sense, but that is what I get out of it!

[Robin Lumsden]

Gustav Mertsch?

I have doubts about the originality.

[woodie]

I take it, you mean on this doc!, according to seller it is, and at the price you'd like to think so...

[Bobbe]

So Woodie what is your opinion on it?

I saw a different Mertsch'signature on another award document...

It could not be his signature...I don't know...

Thanks all for the help!

Cheers,
Roberto

[Simon O.]

I don't like that doc at all.

[hucks216]

I have Gustav Mertsch's signature on a citation in a LSSAH grouping and the one shown on the GvB citation looks absolutely nothing like it.
Here is his signature on an Assault Badge citation to a member of the LSSAH Artillery Rgt...

[Gerdan]

What is with Thomas Müller ?

The signature could start with "Mülle.."

Gerdan

[hucks216]

What is with Thomas Müller ?

The signature could start with "Mülle.."

Gerdan

I also have examples of Thomas Muller's signature on 2 citations in a Hohenstaufen grouping and again, it looks absolutely nothing like the GvB one shown.

[Eric JB]

I don't like the stamp in post # 4, looks fake to me.

yours friendly

Eric-Jan

[Bobbe]

Thanks to All for your help!

@hucks216: I just saw your document in another forum and so I began to have some doubt on the signature I posted

@Simon Orchard: many thanks for your important opinion ...you confirm me my dubts on this document...the opinion on the signature could be definitive for me.

@Eric-Jan: sure...the stamp...but we have not a detailed image...seems not so "beautiful"...

So we can say that the signature is not a Mertsch's one.

Thomas Muller's signature just more probable but ....different from the original two posted from hucks216...

Cheers,
Roberto

[Simon O.]

There's a number of mistakes on the doc. The use of 'Nr.' in the unit designation. 'Im GefechtSt.' is incorrect and whether it's supposed to be Müller or Mertsch it shouldn't read 'kommandeur'

[woodie]

So Woodie what is your opinion on it?

I saw a different Mertsch'signature on another award document...

It could not be his signature...I don't know...

Thanks all for the help!

Cheers,
Roberto

not something I can offer an opinion on roberto, woodie...