Preferred label

Two-piece lock   

Alternative label

Ponticello (Italian)

Scope note

A distinctive letterlocking style which uses two pieces of substrate to secure a letterpacket shut: a narrow strip which passes through slits or holes, and a second piece placed over the tips of the first strip, secured with adhesive.     

Parent concept

Lock       

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Related concept     

Distinctive letterlocking style       

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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.

Alternative label “Ponticello (Italian)” found in Giovanni Riggi di Numana. Il Segreto Epistolare nel periodo della Civilta della carta. Torino: Edizioni Libreria Cortina, 2008, “lettere chiuse con ponticelli di carta”, P. 94

Unlocking History Concept uri

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