Talking of the 1425 Great Seal of Shrewsbury, as we were in the last post, here’s another reference. The red piece in the bottom row of the photo above is a wax copy of the seal.
Impressions of the seal would have been created by pushing the metal seal into some melting wax on a formal document - to signify the approval of the Shrewsbury town corporation. (The loggerheads connection to the seal is that the loggerheads were part of its design).
You can find the glass-cabinet in the photo, with all its various seals, very simply: it’s installed in Shrewsbury Abbey, which is open to the public almost every day.
No one knows how old this wax copy is, though.
A new book has now been published to celebrate 600 years of the loggerheads - click here to find out more.
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