Letterlocking: Elizabeth I to Sir Ralph Sadler: Triangle lock w slit perpendicular to fore-edge, England (1584) (UH0015) from hot english video Watch Video
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Description: Modelled after Elizabeth I to Sir Ralph Sadler (3 December 1584), British Library, Add MS 89293 f.9, (formerly Loan MS 128, fols. 10–11).nnModel found in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries (MIT), Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC 0760. nnThis letterlocking technique has features found on the most secure historic letters. The paper lock is from the same letter it is securing shut; the tapered end of the paper lock weaves through a slit penetrating all the panels of t
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