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STAMP?...It was done with oil paint instead of ink on a rubber stamp of their signature...
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Actually, I use my rubber stamp a lot. I often forget to sign a painting and I don't like my signature to "show" much as it is not an important part of the design. I consider every brushstroke that I apply to my canvas to be my "real" signature.
Here is an example of my stamped name below on a 48" x 36" painting. It is less than 1" wide and I greatly enhanced the first signature in Photoshop so it would be more visable. The second example is how it actually appears. You have to look closely to see it as the signature is nearly the same value as the background.
I do not like to put the year on the front of a painting. Sometimes if I have something to say for posterity, I'll write on the back of the stretcher bar in pencil.