Preferred label

Signature (symbolic objects)         

Alternative label

Scope note

A person’s name or distinctive mark written to identify them as the sender of a letter.

Parent concept        

Writing manipulation        

uh-linked-data/concept/596 

Related concept                 

Signature box        

uh-linked-data/concept/480

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/479