In the Middle Ages sealing wax was typically made of beeswax and ‘Venice turpentine’, a
In the Middle Ages sealing wax was typically made of beeswax and ‘Venice turpentine’, a greenish-yellow resinous extract of the European Larch tree. The earliest such wax was uncolored; later the wax was colored red with vermilion. image: 13th century personal seal matrix with St Margaret, front and back view (x) -- source link
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