Seals

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Awards granted by the Crown may be sealed with the Great Seal of Caid. Those awards that include the arms of the recipient will also receive the seal of Crescent Principal Herald.

In the history of Caid, there have been three sets of seal matrices employed. These are in the keeping of the Scribe Armarius.

When sealing, a dollop of hot sealing wax is poured on the paper. The seal matrix is then pressed into the hot wax and held for a time while the wax cools and the impression solidifies. Typically the seal matrix is kept in icy water until used to speed up cooling the wax.

First Seals

First Kingdom Seals

The original Great Seal and Crescent Seal. The text around the seal includes the date the principality became a kingdom, ASXII, 1978.

Great Seal text reads "SIGILUM MAGNUM REGNIS CAIDIS - ASXII 1978CE"

Note that Crescent's seal predates the registration of the tinctureless badge for that use, and instead combines a crescent with the herald's badge -- Crescent, herald.

Second Seals

Second Kingdom Seals

The second set of seals are of particularly fine workmanship, and the handles themselves are works of art. The great seal features a sealion and the herald's seal features a dolphin. This set of seals is still in use, when requested by the scribe.

The Great seal text reads: "SIGILLUM MAGNUM REGNIS CAIDIS" and "AS XII"


Third Seals

Third Kingdom Seals

The size of the second set of seals required a large space on each scroll to place the seal or seals. This tended only to work well on large format scrolls. Current practice encouraged using smaller sheets of paper or parchment. Therefore, a smaller set of seal matrices was created by Master Thomas Brownwell in 2014.

The "Minor" seal reads: "SIGNVM MINOR REGIS CAIDIS"