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A similar practice was once common among European nobility, specifically through the use of signet rings to impress a personal seal into wax bindings on messages.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Hand Maid May]]:'' Kazuya Saotome receives a package from the Cyberdyne Company, he needs to go look for his seal. When he turns around, however, the delivery person is nowhere to be found.
* ''[[Please Teacher!]]:'' Kei Kusanagi is filling out forms to officially marry Mizuho, ostensibly to protect themselves from reprisals from his school. He is very hesitant about whether this is right to do, but a distraction takes the decision out of his hands, causing him to accidentally put his stamp on the paper.
* The [[Cold Opening]] for each episode of ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]''
** It also features probably the most over-the-top usage of a stamp in anime: in one of the openings, we see a huge meteorite destroying an entire city and carving an enormous crater... and the meteorite turns out to be a ''building-sized'' version of Rikdo Koshi's stamp.
* Despite driving like a maniac for her driving tests, Natsumi in ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'' gets a driving licence anyway, since the examiner passed out during the test, conveniently letting the stamp fall on the requisite box on the form.
* Zeniba's golden seal in ''[[Spirited Away]]'' turns out to be a major plot point, and in one DVD special the English staff talk about the addition of the word "golden" to keep the mostly young audience from mistaking it for the other type of seal that barks and dives underwater, [[Viewers are Morons|viewers being morons]] and all that.
** And since the seal is in essence Zeniba's name, {{spoiler|her sister's}} theft of it is not just robbery, but an attempt to gain magical power over her.
* Adron's personal seal is an important plot point in the [[Dragaera]] novel ''The Phoenix Guards''.▼
* An example of the western version appears in [[Dan Brown]]'s novel ''[[Deception Point]]''. [[Strawman Political|Evil Conservative]] [[Alliteration|Senator Sedgewick Sexton]] places self adhesive wax seals on manilla envelopes {{spoiler|which contain "evidence" that the president was behind a vast conspiracy to...[[It Makes Sense in Context|make it look like aliens exist]]}} to <s> make himself even more insufferable</s> impress the journalists he plans to hand them out to.▼
* A package being delivered, and the subsequent search for the seal, takes the place of the opening sequence in the first episode of ''[[Seven of Seven]].'' It also allows us to see the deliveryman get totally freaked out, and prove that voice actors can count to seven and deliver [[Title Drop]]s at the same time.
* In one scene of ''[[Girls und Panzer]] [[The Movie|Der Film]]'', Miho's sister uses their mother's seal to authorize a transfer for Miho. The implication is that their mother is unaware of this.
* In ''[[Dune]]'', the signet ring of House Atreides is mentioned.▼
== Film ==
* In the movie "A Taxing Woman" tax evaders use all sorts tricks to hide the extra personal seals associated with their hidden bank accounts.
== Literature ==
▲* Adron's personal seal is an important plot point in the [[Dragaera]] novel ''The Phoenix Guards''.
▲* An example of the western version appears in [[Dan Brown]]'s novel ''[[Deception Point]]''. [[Strawman Political|Evil Conservative]] [[Alliteration|Senator Sedgewick Sexton]] places self adhesive wax seals on
▲* In ''[[Dune]]'', the signet ring of House Atreides is mentioned.
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