Here. The British government will tell you everything you want to know about seals, sealing wax, and how to take care of old sealed documents.
For example, to make sealing wax in red or green:
Melt a pound of wax and two onces of turpentyne together, and when they be well molten, take them from the fire and put to them an once of vermillion while it is luke warme, and stir it well together in the keling, and then make it up in rowles and in like maner that you make greene waxe by putting vertgrese into it. Note if you will takefive partse of rosin and one parte of turpentyne, adding to it vermilion, as is aforesayd it maketh the better waxe.[from R.Tottil A Very proper Treatise, (London, 1573).]
Happy now, Google searchers?
Incidentally...I found this doing real work today.
Posted by Nic at January 23, 2004 03:09 PM | TrackBack