The recurring character Seccotine of the Franco-Belgian comics series Spirou et Fantasio is named after the glue.
British popular ukuleleist George Formby sang about Frigid Air Fanny whose "teeth are not a grand set - she bought a second hand set - and stuck 'em in with seccotine" (1938).
Billy Bunter is glued into a chair with seccotine in The Magnet #100 (1910).
In the R. Austin Freeman novel As a Thief in the Night (1928) the use of seccotine rather than glue is used as a clue to identify a murderer.
In the C.S. Lewis novel That Hideous Strength (1945) a character is described as having a cigarette "seccotined" to his lip.
In the E. Nesbit novel The Story of the Amulet (1906) a broken saucer would never be the same again even if bits were joined "with Seccotine or the white of an egg."
In the Agatha Christie novels The Man in the Brown Suit (1924), a significant roll of film "...has evidently been stuck down with seccotine,..." and would need "the use of a tinopener".[1] and Death on the Nile (1937), Poirot whilst searching a cabin.."He picked up a tube of Seccotine, fingered it absently for a minute or two, then said: 'Let us pass on.'"
Anthony Burgess, in his autobiography Little Wilson and Big God (1987) writes: "This [a broken Chinese vase] we all helped to mend laboriously with seccotine".
In the Aldous Huxley novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) "This beastly stuff's drying on me. Like seccotine." when showered with dog's blood on a hot sunny day.[2]
In William Trevor’s MAN Booker-shortlisted novel ‘The Story Of Lucy Gault’, Captain Everard Gault’s repairs to his Irish family home include squeezing Seccotine into the small perforations occurring in the lead of its slate roof, which is ‘effective for a while’.
