Letterlocking: Yo El Rey, two-piece lock: paper band and shaped-papered seal, Spain (1732) (UH0017) from duke video hot Watch Video
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Description: Modelled after a ceremonial letter from the King of Spain to the Duke of Sora (18 June 1732), Boncompagni Ludovisi Archive (Villa Aurora), Rome.nnModel found in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries (MIT), Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC 0760. nnThe lock is cut from another paper source, not from the actual letter being sent. Other examples of historic original manuscripts indicate that people all over Europe were using variations similar to this two-piece paper-lockin
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