Wafer
Category
Household and miscellaneous
Date
Unknown
Materials
Flour
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Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1400909
Summary
Collection of document wafers, mostly pink. In envelope. Wafers made of flour mixed with gum or gelatine, used for sealing letters, attaching papers, or receiving the impression of a seal.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)