Preferred label

Postal chalk                

Alternative label

Scope note

Chalk, often orange-brown in color, used to record postal charges on letterpackets.        

Parent concept

Postal manipulation       

uh-linked-data/concept/389        

Related concept                                                     

Postal marks       

uh-linked-data/concept/390

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT       

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

 Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/388