Preferred label

Locking mechanism               

Alternative label

Locking sequence; Locking-mechanism

Scope note

The combination of parts of a letterpacket and manipulations which secures the letter shut; the part of the packet which must be unfolded, taken apart, torn, or undone before the substrate can be unfolded and the textual content can be accessed.        

Parent concept

Locking instructions       

uh-linked-data/concept/318        

Related concept                                                     

Lock       

uh-linked-data/concept/309

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/319