countersigner

Updated: June 14, 2025

But with the thumb-print in use, as it might be, such an organization would be unnecessary. As between bank and bank, this use of the fingerprint in bank papers of large face value is especially applicable. A draft for $100,000 or $1,000,000 may be worth more consideration of the banks concerned than the penmanship of signer and countersigner of the paper.

Jerome Buell Lavay - Disputed Handwriting : An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds