It doesn't take much to make a standard seal, but the size of stamps varies. After about 10-15 seconds, the stamp is pressed into the hot wax for another 10 seconds and voila! A wax seal is born.

A wax seal stamp is to go on display at the site of a medieval priory where it is thought to have been used to sell religious pardons. The mould was found by a metal detectorist two miles from the ...

An old-school wax seal (closure) on a bottle can be intimidating -- even for experienced wine professionals. Very few bottlers still use a wax seal and of the few that do, many have converted to ...

Design blog Ragehaus has a great how-to for creating your own wooden wax seal, to give your snail mail letters an even more historical look than they already have.