A wax impression

 Copy of Shrewsbury Great Seal at Shrewsbury Abbey

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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