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Seal & Scribe Love Letters collection captures the romance of wax seals.

Seal & Scribe Love Letters collection captures the romance of wax seals.

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Seal & Scribe Love Letters collection captures the romance of wax seals.

I’ve been looking forward to sharing today’s post with you since last year, when Shari of Seal & Scribe called me to tell me she was creating this new collection with antique seals and would my readers be interested in hearing about it? Now it’s here and I can’t wait to show you!

Seal & Scribe Love Letters collection captures the romance of wax seals.

First things first: what’s a wax seal? Before modern adhesives, letters were sealed with wax. For special missives, letter writers could add another layer of meaning by pressing a seal into the molten wax before it hardened so that it would leave an impression: a reverse image of any symbols or words engraved on the seal’s surface.

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