Sealing wax
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Sealing wax is a wax material which, after melting, hardens quickly, forming a seal that is difficult to break without noticeable tampering. Wax is used to verify that something such as a document is
Letters sealed with wax in a painting from 1675 by Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts
A donor portrait by Petrus Christus, c. 1455, showing a print attached to the wall with sealing wax
Wax seal displaying the Fonseca Padilla family arms
Personal seal of William Stoughton (judge) with his coat of arms, as it appears on the warrant for the execution of Bridget Bishop for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692
Stamp seal
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The stamp seal is a common seal die, frequently carved from stone, known at least since the 6th millennium BC and probably earlier. The dies were used to impress their picture or inscription into soft
Sealing wax
…without noticeable tampering. Wax is used to verify that something such as a document is unopened, to verify the sender's identity (for example with a seal stamp or signet ring), and as decoration. Sealing wax can also be used to take impressions of other seals. Wax was used to seal letters close and later, from…
A stamp seal and its impression. The impression rotated clockwise 90 degrees probably yields a version of the Tree of Life-(see Urartian art photos).
Indus seal, (with modern impression); from ca. mid- to late-3rd millennium BC.(?)
Stamp seal of an Egyptian named: Meru-the Answerer of Horus (Brooklyn Museum)
Signaculum PRIMIT ("first")