Tag: ligature
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Of Chops and Seals and Sealing Wax
Many years ago I had a soapstone ‘chop’, or seal, made for me in China, with an engraving of a transcription of my name. Although I still have the seal I won’t show you the characters, as I have a sneaking suspicion that, rather than being a noble, elegant and flattering translation, it instead probably…