Letterlocking: Brienne Postal Archive: Mechanical Lock and Seal, France (1699) from www marie hot video Watch Video
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Description: Modelled after the Museum voor Communicatie's Brienne Collection, DB 2180 with permission. nnThis is one of the few examples in the Brienne collection of the letterlocking category fold + tuck + lock-N + adhere.Rather than stabbing through the packet and lacing the paper lock through it, the letterlocker cinches the paper lock around the open edge of the letter-packet, affixing it to each side with warm sealing wax. nnIn 1926, a seventeenth-century trunk of letters was given to the Museum voor