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  2. Sealing wax - Wikipedia

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    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 about the 16th century, envelopes.

  3. Stamp seal - Wikipedia

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    The stamp seal (also impression seal) is a common seal die, frequently carved from stone, known at least since the 6th millennium BC (Halaf culture [1]) and probably earlier. The dies were used to impress their picture or inscription into soft, prepared clay and sometimes in sealing wax .

  4. Seal (contract law) - Wikipedia

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    In England and Wales, the common law courts originally recognised only wax seals, but this requirement was gradually relaxed.By the 20th century a small circle of red adhesive paper affixed to the document in question was sufficient when an individual had to use a seal [6] (most commonly on a contract for the sale of land), although the courts also held that a circle containing the letters "L ...

  5. Seal (emblem) - Wikipedia

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    The seal-making device is also referred to as the seal matrix or die; the imprint it creates as the seal impression (or, more rarely, the sealing). [1] If the impression is made purely as a relief resulting from the greater pressure on the paper where the high parts of the matrix touch, the seal is known as a dry seal ; in other cases ink or ...

  6. Bulla (seal) - Wikipedia

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    A bulla (or clay envelope) and its contents on display at the Louvre. Uruk period (4000–3100 BC).. A bulla (Medieval Latin for "a round seal", from Classical Latin bulla, "bubble, blob"; plural bullae) is an inscribed clay, soft metal (lead or tin), bitumen, or wax token used in commercial and legal documentation as a form of authentication and for tamper-proofing whatever is attached to it ...

  7. Seals in the Sinosphere - Wikipedia

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    Seals are still used for official purposes in a number of contexts. When collecting parcels or registered post, the name seal serves as an identification, akin to a signature. In banks, traditionally the method of identification was also by a seal. Seals remain the customary form of identification on cheques in mainland China and Taiwan. Today ...

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