Preferred label

Lock–Same substrate, unattached 

Alternative label

Band; tongue; LSU        

Scope note

A lock cut off or sliced out from the writing substrate of the letter, and detached entirely before it is used to secure the packet shut. SU signifies “same substrate, unattached.”  Also referred to as lock-SU.        

Parent concept

Lock       

uh-linked-data/concept/309        

Related concept                                                     

Locking mechanism       

uh-linked-data/concept/319

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT       

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

 Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/316