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A label claiming a book.
Also known as: Book label, Owner's plate
The printed label pasted inside a book to record its owner.
Records the owner of a book by a label pasted inside it.
Contexts: Public information
Accumulates rather than replaces in a long-lived book, so successive plates record a chain of ownership — the same provenance-by-accumulation as the East Asian seals recorded earlier in this sprint.
Contexts: Public information
Its removal is itself evidence, since a lifted plate leaves a mark, so an attempt to erase provenance usually records that the attempt was made.
Contexts: Public information
A printed label pasted to the inside front cover carrying a name, often with a coat of arms, a motto or a pictorial device.
Both accumulate on a long-lived object and record a chain of ownership across centuries.