New Wax Seals

[VertOlive]

I sealed up a batch of Christmas cards today and want to share my 3 seals:

Compass:

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Claddagh:


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And my initial:

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These are all flexible sealing wax with a wick. These are all stock seals.

[earthdawn]

Nice...

I have a compass as well but it's a little different.. PLUS I always get the burnt wax in mine

[jacksterp]

VERY nice VO!

Someday I'm going to get a wax seal...

[everybodylovesbacon]

Man. This makes me really want a wax seal. It started when I received awesome sealed letters during InCoWriMo. I thought I was over it, but now I might need to place that order.

[DrChumley]

Nice seals. I have the standard J. Herbin initial, but I asked for the Armstrong (my Surname) Coat of Arms for a Christmas present. Let's see if anyone was brave enough to order it from Scotland for me. If not, I've got a nice little present for myself some time in 2014.

[VertOlive]

Nice...

I have a compass as well but it's a little different.. PLUS I always get the burnt wax in mine

Earthdawn, if you stir your puddle of wax with the wax stick itself right before you stamp it, you can mix the soot in and make it less noticeable.

[MisterBoll]

Very nice seals.

[earthdawn]

@ VertOlive... THANK YOU !!!

[VertOlive]

You bet! Sorry about misspelling your user name-my kindle "corrects" things as I type and I missed it...

[KrazyIvan]

Sorry, please do not take offense, it is not a compass. It is a compass rose. The compass points to magnetic north. The compass rose is the little diagram that denotes the cardinal directions, ie north, south, east and west. It is also the term for the degree markings on a magnetic compass. I just have a thing for compass rose related stuff. I still need a wax seal but I do have a rubber stamp and a medallion on my Midori TN clone.


And the compass rose is in place. by IvanRomero, on Flickr

And this is the rubber stamp:


Stack-able Ink Stamps by 7gypsies by IvanRomero, on Flickr

[cwent2]

[QUOTE=KrazyIvan;53811]Sorry, please do not take offense, it is not a compass. It is a compass rose. The compass points to magnetic north. The compass rose is the little diagram that denotes the cardinal directions, ie north, south, east and west. It is also the term for the degree markings on a magnetic compass. I just have a thing for compass rose related stuff. I still need a wax seal but I do have a rubber stamp and a medallion on my Midori TN clone.

Ivan

Ok, I give - I checked 7gypsies and even downloaded the catalog - I can't find your rubber stamp deal.

Also is that the Mock Madori TN clone?

If so how is it holding up?

Cw

[KrazyIvan]

[QUOTE=cwent2;53830]

Sorry, please do not take offense, it is not a compass. It is a compass rose. The compass points to magnetic north. The compass rose is the little diagram that denotes the cardinal directions, ie north, south, east and west. It is also the term for the degree markings on a magnetic compass. I just have a thing for compass rose related stuff. I still need a wax seal but I do have a rubber stamp and a medallion on my Midori TN clone.

Ivan

Ok, I give - I checked 7gypsies and even downloaded the catalog - I can't find your rubber stamp deal.

Also is that the Mock Madori TN clone?

If so how is it holding up?

Cw

I don't want to derail the thread much more than I have already. I'll PM you in a bit.

[VertOlive]

KrazyIvan. How very interesting! I learned something new today, many thanks.

[VertOlive]

This was a seal given to me by my 7 yr old for Christmas. Given that we have 4 dogs, his choice was perfect!

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[kia]

Great gift from your son, VertOlive!

Congrats on your seal, dcroe05. It's nice to have our crests and charges and badges illustrated in a seal.

[VertOlive]

dcroes, what is the meaning of the dog carrying what appears to be a candle lit at both ends? Dominicans have a dog with a torch in it's mouth as part of a seal so it made me wonder....

[DPWilkens]

I enjoy using sealing wax but rarely get a chance to. I didn't even know you could send wax seals through the US mail and not have them eaten in the sorting machines. As for soot, I rather like the mottled effect it makes in the finished seal, but you might be able to avoid this by using a separate heat source, such as a butane lighter.

I do a lot of research using original letters from the 1812-1815 period, and red wax seals are standard (they folded the sheets in such a way that the sealing wax, rather than an envelope, held the letter together). What's interesting, though is that you rarely see any trace of the wax-type. Instead, most documents seem to have been sealed with a gelatin wafer, which had a distinct and uniform circular appearance. They even used these in place of paperclips. US Army officers were even issued a prescribed number of wafer seals, ink powder, and quires of paper in order to manage their paperwork. However, I don't know of anyone who manufactures gelatin seals in the modern world. Has anyone else heard of this type?

[kia]

Well, I haven't seen the gelatin seals up close and in person, though I have seen the hand seals that make impressions in gelatin or wax. They were usually round with a criss-crossed pattern. I think I came across some old recipes for wafer seals when I was doing a google search long ago, but I didn't keep them. I don't think they'd go well with modern postal equipment.