The address is partially obliterated by the now-removed sealing wax once on the folded paper of the letter.
Consider a cylinder with a polished surface, for example, a stick of sealing wax.
After complete cooling, the flame was passed g radually over the pipe to its end and the latter then was sealed with sealing wax in the same way.
That the king appointed a commission before the sealing wax on a new charter had cooled helps us see the rationale behind royal behaviour in both instances.
You could not tell whether it was ships, shoes, or sealing wax.
The package will have been wrapped up with sealing wax on its string.
We have this "sealing wax and string" tradition.
I am not suggesting a return to string and sealing wax.
