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Conference turris::womannotes-v1

Title:ARCHIVE-- Topics of Interest to Women, Volume 1 --ARCHIVE
Notice:V1 is closed. TURRIS::WOMANNOTES-V5 is open.
Moderator:REGENT::BROOMHEAD
Created:Thu Jan 30 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 30 1995
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:873
Total number of notes:22329

788.0. "Where can I find Sealing Wax?" by GNUVAX::BOBBITT (modem butterfly) Tue Apr 05 1988 16:38

    This may seem trivial, but I've looked and looked and can't find
    it.  Maybe some of you old-fashioned types would know where to look
    for Sealing Wax (to seal letters with).
    
    It comes in small sticks with wicks down the middle, and is usually
    found along with the seals that imprint shapes in the wax.  Hallmark
    used to make it - but the store that carried it doesn't anymore.
    I live in the Boston/Worcester (Massachusetts) area.
    
    thanks
    
    -Jody
    
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788.1MEWVAX::AUGUSTINETue Apr 05 1988 16:531
    try calling the quill and press in acton
788.2another possibilityNSSG::ALFORDanother fine mess....Wed Apr 06 1988 09:302
    Maybe at Wicks n Sticks....in a lot of the malls around...
    
788.3There everywhereOURVAX::JEFFRIESthe best is betterWed Apr 06 1988 11:181
    Hallmark card stores.
788.4total non sequiturVIA::RANDALLback in the notes life againWed Apr 06 1988 14:1517
    re: .3 
    
    Hallmark appears to have quit carrying sealing wax in the past six
    or nine months or so.
    
    But most of the specialty stationery stores still carry at least a
    small selection. 
    
    As an aside -- when I was growing up and listening to the song
    "Puff the Magic Dragon", I always thought the line "...and brought
    him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff"  said "ceiling
    wax" and I'd go around staring at everybody's ceilings trying to
    figure out if they waxed their ceilings and WHY?????
    
    It was years before I figured that one out . . .
    
    --bonnie 
788.5Also see the Walrus and the Carpenter3D::CHABOTThat fish, that is not catched thereby,Wed Apr 06 1988 15:211
    You mean, you don't wax your ceilings?                     :-)
788.6GOJIRA::PHILPOTT_DWThe ColonelWed Apr 06 1988 16:3215
       A piece of mild trivia that seems to belong here:

       The rings that men and women wear having no jewels and with
       incised initials or a family crest are called "signet rings".

       Q: Why is this generally inaccurate?

       
       A: Because [originally] a signet ring was used to impress a
       "signet" into the blob of sealing wax on a document. Since the
       seal has to be readable the incised design on the ring *has* to
       be a mirror image.

       /. Ian .\
788.7Looking for PostersYODA::BARANSKIHoping it's going to come true...Fri May 20 1988 18:3415
As a further departure from the conference subject matter, does anyone know
of a place in MA/NH that carries the series of 2'x4' animal posters?  I have
several old ones that I am looking to replace:

"The Ten Danger Signs of Love" (teddy bear)
"To Know Me it to Love Me" (Pig)
"Do you ever feel left out in the Cold" (Benji-type dog in a snow storm)
"The Truth will set you Free, but first it will put you through a wringer"
(Rag Doll half way through a wringer)
"I am wanting to be Loved" (dog)

Anybody ever seen any of these?  I can't find any stores that carry a large
stock of posters in NE like in MI. 

JMB
788.8SUPER::HENDRICKSThe only way out is throughFri May 20 1988 19:492
    Have you checked the poster section at the Coop?  They have a whole
    rack of the animal ones you see in bookstores.