The first is an indenture involving a banker from Liverpool selling a piece of land to a merchant in 1828. The second is a patent for Evan Leigh of Lancashire County for the invention of “certain improvements in steam engines” and others for “serving machinery.” This second document dates to the mid-nineteenth century and includes a very large royal wax seal attached to the bottom for official endorsement of the patent. However, it also has a rather more literary history and was even referenced by Shakespeare’s Toby Belch in Twelfth Night who described a large piece of paper as ‘big enough for the Bed of Ware’. However, it has just been moved – all four pillars and posts of it – to a tiny Museum in its former home town of Ware. This hand-poured, 10 oz candle is made of all natural soy wax and is ideal as a gift or to be burned year-round in your home. They found that people had carved their initials in the wood such as ‘DL’ and ‘WC’ next to a date of 1729. Others even left wax seals by dropping molten wax onto the wood and imprinting their signet rings into it.

The copies all date to June 1832 and were most likely all requested for legal records or a court dispute that took place thirty years after the originals were made out in Washington, D.C. Mogoko Wax Seal Stamp Kit, 1 Pcs Flower Wax Seal Stamp and 120 Pcs Star Shape Sealing Wax Beads with Melting Spoon and Candles 4.8 out of 5 stars 239 £16.99 £ 16 . Here I am as the tide is still going out in central London, wax seal collection not far from St. Paul’s Cathedral. As I said above, chocolate is a non-entity in Westeros, but this concept is still sound. Two unlabeled open-reel audio tapes of a Zukofsky lecture have been separated from the collection and are housed in the Ransom Center’s Sound Recordings Collection. A small decorative plate, a red clay ornament with Pound’s profile, two chess sets, a scarf, a letter seal with red sealing wax, a stickpin, a walking stick, and a lock of Pound’s hair have been separated from the collection and are housed in the Ransom Center’s Personal Effects Collection.

Three books related to Ezra Pound have been separated from the collection and are housed in the Ransom Center’s Book Collection. The valuation of her whole estate is 18 pounds, 12 shillings, and 8 pence, but this total is made up of such items as “seaven old blanketts,” “five course towells,” and “three ould Beds and three boulsters and two pillowes.” Among items of some consequence, the widow had a gold ring, 16 pewter dishes, a pewter flagon and a pewter tankard, brass kettles, and a basin and two porringers of pewter. The bed dates from around 1590, making it almost 420 years old, measures over three metres wide by two and a half high, weighs some 641kg and is made up of 40 components. The examples in the two collections show that various coloured silks were used – yellow, purple, red, white and green – but by far the most common is a combination of red and yellow.

Primarily it happened due to the poor range of colours: red, black, green, as well as natural wax, which was perceived as uncolored in some regions and yellow in others, i.e. had a colour differentiation. Antique Carved Onyx Seal in Yellow Gold Case. New Listing (2) Antique Wax Letter Seal Stamp Letter Old English D Wood Handle 19th century. A lovely mix of desk wax seals, watch fob wax seals and signet rings, some dating back to the 16th century, were used to create this nautical collection of anchors, ships, compasses, and mermaids wax seal jewelry. The use of seals can be traced all the way back to the world’s first civilizations, and have been found in Mesopotamia and are believed to hail from 3500BC. They were made with clay that was impressed with engraved cylinders or rings. Collections are also formed containing a specimen from the reigns of the Kings and Queens whose names appear on them. The work is based on the collections of the National Archives of Latvia (Riga collection) and the collection of academician Nikolai Petrovich Likhachev (1862-1936), which is currently kept in the Archives of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg collection).