Preferred label

Sealing-wax             

Alternative label

Wax; Sealing wax; Lac-based sealing wax 

Scope note

A colored, waxy adhesive that is softened or melted, and applied to a letter substrate as part of its closure system. May be impressed with a seal stamp to create an exposed seal, or overlaid with paper or another material to create a covered seal.  

Parent concept       

Adhesive        

uh-linked-data/concept/16    

Related concept                                       

Seal (locking appendage)        

uh-linked-data/concept/451        

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

http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300311202

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/458