It’s SOP for assistants and secretaries to initial a stamped signature. Why would she initial his actual signature? There would be no need to authenticate since the signature would be genuine rather than a proxy.
Do you have a link that would verify that it came from a stamp ?
I apologize... My post may not have been clearly written. The signature in the yearbook... was not produced by a stamp. It was a crude forgery of a signature made by a stamp that was on the divorce papers of the lady who owned the yearbook.
Having an assistant use a signature stamp and then initialing the “signature” is a common practice. My mother was an RN and worked for the same doctor for many years. She used a signature stamp from the doctor to “sign” his prescriptions and other documents. It is also possible that his assistant signed for Judge Moore and then initialed the signatures... this is not quite as common.
I did not save a link from the source that provided this explanation, but will go back and look.
““Judge Moore says he can’t remember ever signing his name with DA after it. But he had seen it before. You know where he had seen it? When he was on the bench, his assistant whose initials are capital D. A. Delbra Adams would stamp his signature on a document and put capital D. A. That’s exactly how this signature appears on the divorce decree that Judge Moore signed dismissing the divorce action of Beverly Nelson.””