impression of a seal

One bears the impression of a seal.

A bulla is a flattened lump of hardened clay bearing the impression of a seal.

He handed Ramage a letter which had been closed with a blob of red wax but bore no impression of a seal.

Like other oriental monarchies, official sanction of all public acts were conveyed by the impression of a seal.

On the trial of Bishop Francis Atterbury, he was examined as an expert as to the impression of a seal.

There was no fish however, but he found a yellow pot, which by its weight seemed full of something, and he noticed that it was fastened and sealed with lead, with the impression of a seal.

A surviving impression of a seal borne by Heinrich von Ufflingen - Ufflingen being an old form of the name (Ober)Öfflingen - from 1451 shows the same "bendy" (that is, with slanted stripes) pattern now seen in the lower half of the escutcheon.