Keith Nuttle wrote: >[...] in America it is quite common to see a >hand drawn seal. I always assumed that the original document was >transcribed into the Probate court records and the hand drawn seal was >used to represent the actual seal on the original document I once (and idiotically did not note whose it was) saw, while winding through a microfilm copy of PCC wills, a pre-reformation will for a nobleman where the probate clark had copied the intricate tracery that filled the front page of the will.

cecilia wrote: > Keith Nuttle wrote: > >> [...] in America it is quite common to see a >> hand drawn seal. I always assumed that the original document was >> transcribed into the Probate court records and the hand drawn seal was >> used to represent the actual seal on the original document > > I once (and idiotically did not note whose it was) saw, while winding > through a microfilm copy of PCC wills, a pre-reformation will for a > nobleman where the probate clark had copied the intricate tracery that > filled the front page of the will. And now that they're digitized, some poor fool somewhere is poring over that page, trying to "read it through all the bleed-through". Color me mean, but that thought sort of brightened my day ... ;) Cheryl