Hi, I'm new to the forum and I'm honored to deal with this large amount of experts. I apologize for my English but I'm Italian and have a basic knowledge of the language.

I have recently been collecting autographs, especially in the historical field. I wanted to ask dear members for an opinion on a historical autograph of a minor character in Boston history, the wife of merchant and philanthropist Stephen Girard, Mary Lum Girard famous for being locked up in a mental asylum for many years until her death. Now I realize that it is difficult to find writings and examples to compare the signature but my question was another.

I saw that the ink is a deep black, which is strange because it should be more than 200 years old and also it seems that the ink is too uniform, there are no variations in pressure, almost as if it were printed. What I wanted to ask you experts is if you could tell if it's a hand written or printed autograph.

Thank you very much