Unlocking History number (UH#)
UH0072
Original
Intelligencer Simeon Foxe’s Dagger-Trap Pleated Letter
Model and research notes
MIT Libraries, Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC0760, Box 27.
Letterlocking Unique Video number(s) (LUV #s) & Instructional video(s) URL
LUV072 http://youtu.be/16GAIaYN_Gk
Instructional video info transcription
Forthcoming
Letterlocking Category number (LC #)
LC47H
Letterlocking Format number (LF #)
4RXW
Security score
High
Assessment of Confidence in assigning LC#
Attested
Substrate
Paper
Dimensions
Opened (in mm): H:262 mm x 360mm
Letterpacket (in mm): H: 48 mm x W: 90mm
Manifestation
Opened
Distinctive letterlocking style(s)
Dagger-trap
Locking mechanism
Lock
Security enhancements
Authenticated exposed seal
Fake security
Hatching
Booby trap Lock-SA
Letterlocking category formula (shorthand)
LC47
Fold + Slit/Hole + Adhere + Lock-O + Lock-SA
(F + S/H + A + LO + LSA)
Letterlocking manipulation sequence (shorthand)
Forthcoming
Locking instructions
Forthcoming
Images
Forthcoming
Foldable(s)
Forthcoming
Step-by-steps
Forthcoming
Substrate map
Forthcoming
Virtual unfolding results
NA
Manipulations
Writing: Margin folds
Postal: NA
Opening: Tears
Filing (Storage, Display): NA
Repair: NA
Damage
Tears
Features
Dirt on panels/ in crease
Radiating wrinkles
Seal impression adjacency
Wrinkles
Article(s)
2023. Daniel Starza Smith & Jana Dambrogio. Letterlocking: securing correspondence before envelopes in Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World. Lauren Shohet, subject editor.
Book
Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith with the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.
Citation for the letter(s)
UH0072
Original
Simeon Foxe to Sir Robert Cecil, addressed to Thomas Wilson (August 29, 1601). National Archives (TNA), SP 101/81 fols. 344/345.
Model
MIT Libraries, Unlocking History Research Group archive, MC0760, Box 29.
Video
Jana Dambrogio and the Unlocking History Research Group, “Intelligencer Simeon Foxe’s dagger-trap pleated letter sent from Venice (1601).” Letterlocking Instructional Videos. Unlocking History number 0072/Letterlocking Unique Video number: 0072. Filmed: September 2016. Duration: 12:11. Posted: October 2016. URL: https://youtu.be/16GAIaYN_Gk. Accessed March 4, 2025.