Preferred label

Seal-impression transfer(features)           

Alternative label

Seal impression transfer  

Scope note

An impression made in a document by a seal affixed to a letter stored immediately next to that document. The transfer may be the result of original transmission (e.g. one sealed letter enclosed within another), or historical filing (e.g. two letters bound next to each other in a letter book, or tightly packed in a box).  

Parent concept      

Impression transfer        

uh-linked-data/concept/188      

Related concept                      

Seal-impression (seal feature)        

uh-linked-data/concept/456

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/456