Decipher Scathewick's Correspondence sign

From: Ambition: Nemesis 38 - Scathewick's Accounts

It appears several times. Here, a line is drawn between it and the name 'Cumberbold'. Later it is accompanied by antoher, more common Correspondence sign, a mutator indicating 'illustrious culpability'. Torn pages litter your study. You have gutted Scathewick's accounts and nailed the important fragments to your wall. Three entries are circled in red ink: the names 'Gloriana' and 'Cumberbold', and a scrawled attempt at a Correspondence sign. Investigate all three leads to progress.

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The higher your Scholar of the Correspondence quality, the less this will cost.

At A Scholar of the Correspondence 7 the cost is: 75x Compromising Document, 75x Correspondence Plaque, 3x Uncanny Incunabulum 2x Searing Enigma.

Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 160?
 * 116 - very chancy (41%)
 * 141 - chancy (52%)
 * 163 - modest (61%)

Success
The Censored Sigils

Player Summary: The symbols is uncommon, and upon speaking to a retired professor he informs you that a list of prohibitted sigils is definitely not kept by the Senior Auditor of the Ministry of Public Decency. Later, men from the department look through your research. After they depart, you pull some volumes of research from their hiding place and find it's meaning.
 * Watchful is increasing...
 *  Suspicion is increasing...
 * You've lost 75 x Correspondence Plaque
 * You've lost 75 x Compromising Document
 * You've lost 1 x Uncanny Incunabulum
 * You've lost 2 x Searing Enigma