Preferred label

Seal tear (features)                

Alternative label

Scope note

A breach in a substrate caused by ripping it open near the area where it was sealed shut.     

Parent concept    

Letter-opening manipulation       

uh-linked-data/concept/220       

Related concept                        

Seal (locking appendage)        

uh-linked-data/concept/451

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/453