#wax stamps

[blistexenthusiast]

19th century wax seals

[saizun]

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[copperbadge]

This is meant to be a small sculpture of Hercules "fighting" the Nemean lion. Fighting is not the first F word that came to mind, I must say.

Granted it's also the handle of an antique wax sealing stamp, so the artist was somewhat limited in terms of space in which to work, but I appreciate the unsettling eroticism that this resulted in.

[ID: Four photographs of a silver sealing wax stamp with an almost awkwardly tall handle. Depicted on the handle is a man standing upright, nude, with a particuarly rounded ass; he has large brawny arms and is in the attitude of a wrestler. One arm is upraised to hold open the muzzle of a lion, which is rearing up on its hind legs to attack; the other arm is wrapped around the lion's torso. In most of the photos they do not look unlike a pair of lovers in carnal embrace.]

[pngmart]

wax seal stamps

[persephones-flower-garden]

I got wax stamps n shit for Christmas and I was having fun last night they’re so pretty

[fazedlight]

Wax stamps!!

I made some wax stamps today!! My family has a cluster of birthdays coming up, and @cwluc had gotten into making wax stamps, so I thought I'd give it a try.

It's a very simple process! Underneath the wax is a normal tea candle. It melts pretty quickly. I think I pressed too hard on the second stamp (the white one), for the third I just left it alone to sit while I cleaned the wax holder.

Cleaning the wax holder is dangerous 😂 I didn't want to let it cool because the wax would stick, which means wiping it while it's still hot.

But it was pretty fun, I'll probably keep doing this with future cards ❤️

[weheartstims]

may I have a stress stimboard with pink, flowers and shiny things? I also love your stimboards btw! they're always very satisfying to stare at no matter if I'm familiar with the media or not. thank you <33 /p

Stressmonster101 (MCYT) with pink flowers and shinies!

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[cottonkhaleesi]

Using up the last of the William morris calendar to make pretty wax stamp “portraits” gotta colour all those clear borders so they look like picture frames then find excuses to use them to seal letters and all sorts of things.

Will say: clear ‘wax’ felt very much like glue to me, as in: it had different texture, melt time and pour fluidity. But honestly it got the job done, so….

[that-bookworm-guy]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMY2ksctP/

I created a video on the basics for creating a wax seal, something I honestly love doing so much

This is just very basic but I hope you enjoy it :)

[delcobunny]

Wax Seals

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[blistexenthusiast]

19th century gilded wax seals

[nuveau-deco]

Stamp Seal with a Toadstool Base. Manufactured in the 2nd half of the 19th century, presumed Russian origin. Materials are vermeil (silver gilded with gold), enamel paint and shell. From the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, inventory number: 018080.

(Source: mahmah.ch)

[copperbadge]

Custom Wax Stamps

banesidhe

Would you be willing to share the source for custom stamps? I also do these and have had a hard time finding stamps with what I want on them

Oh sure! I hope it's okay that I pulled this out into its own post, I didn't want to spam the OP on the other. Apologies in advance if you know any of what I'm about to say, I'm just going to infodump and I want to make sure I don't miss anything. I will say that the process was smooth and pretty painless for me, much more so than I expected.

As preface, if you haven't been to the Craspire website, they have acres of stamps for very cheap, and I think the vast majority of sellers on Amazon/Ebay/Etsy actually just dropship from Craspire. If you're looking for variety, I'd definitely look there. (If you have, again, apologies, it just took me a while to find it and I spent more than I should have on a couple of my stamps before I started buying direct from them, so I like to make sure I mention it.)

There are a ton of shops on Etsy offering custom stamps, with wildly varying prices -- when I was doing research I saw one that was $55 for just the stamp, and another that was $30 because you couldn't buy the stamp without a starter-kit bundled in (furnace, spoon, wax). Definitely don't pay that much. I didn't get super exhaustive with my research because I couldn't really find a better price than a shop that I'd already done business with, and I knew they were reliable, so I just stuck with them. The shop is PraeyDesigns -- they have reasonable rates overall and everything I've bought from them has been good quality, so they're one of my go-tos for both stamps and wax (there's cheaper wax available but I like their selection). They offer a number of different sales pages for custom seals, so I'll link direct to this one, the one I purchased.

On that page, the third image lists the sizes they offer -- I bought the 3cm oval because I needed it "long" to accommodate the tail on my image. For reference, most larger stamps you buy prefab are 4cm rounds, most of the smaller stamps are 3cm rounds; that particular page only offers up to 3cm but PraeyDesigns does have other custom stamp pages that offer 4cm. In any case, it looks like the page just offers you the chance to pick from a variety of designs, but they do explicitly offer custom engraving from your own image; under "add your personalization" you should give the size head you want and then say, "I have an image for a design, please message and I will send it to you."

They reached out about 24 hours after I purchased, through Etsy, and asked for the image; this is what I sent them, also through Etsy's messenger function, and the result:

I'm given to understand that they generally have to retrace the image regardless of size or quality to turn it into a vector, so they can take a fairly low-res image and do a lot with it, but I tried to give them as clean a JPG as I could to work with. While the result is not absolutely identical, for an engraving smaller than a quarter it's pretty damn accurate and I think most of the minor shifts in design were for clarity's sake.

But I was pleased it really was that simple -- I bought the item, they said "Please send the design", I sent it, they confirmed they had it, and I didn't hear from them again until they sent me the shipping notification. Potentially if you don't have as clean an image they might need to talk to you about issues with the design, so I would make sure you have a very clean-line black-and-white image to send, but they seem pretty competent and they do good work.

Love to see what you get if you end up getting one! Definitely tag me. :)

[pngmart]

wax stamp seals - by request

[vivid-pink10]

Mi piace, piace, piaceeeeeeee!!!!

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