Preferred label

Repurposed waste lock        

Alternative label

Repurposed waste lock; Repurposed waste remnant (manuscript or printed)    

Scope note

A lock cut from a substrate containing manuscript or printed text unrelated to the text of the letter it is locking.        

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/427