skippet

(ˈskɪpɪt)

(Furniture) a small round box for preserving a document or seal

[C14: perhaps from skeppe skep]

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attachment of the wax seal and silver skippet to the actual document--a

contained in silver boxes, known as skippets. (25) Four of the attached

skippets. Through the champlev6 enamelling technique, the bosses depict

Art and law: the indentures bipartite between King Henry VII and John Islip, Abbot of Westminster, and related objects

The National Archives also holds an exchange copy that is 12 pages long and includes a skippet. It was signed by King George III at a later date.

Rough journal page documenting ratification and final page of the Treaty of Paris, 1783

And if the seal is still attached to a document the box it is in is known as a skippet.