Tinted wax for sealing or refilling tablets
5 €
These blocks of wax are made of beeswax and mineral pigment (yellow ochre, red ochre...).
This wax was used to fill wax tablets or to seal documents and letters, depending on the period.
- Materials
- Cire d'abeille et pigment minéral
- Periods
- Antiquity, Merovingians and Carolingians, Middle Ages, 12th-13th centuries (Crusades), Hundred Years' War and 15th century, Renaissance, 17th century, 18th century