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A look at an illustrated manuscript by Ralph Brooke, a herald in the English College...
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The chief components of armorial bearings...
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Plaque with the arms of Sir Thomas Tonge, champlevé enamel on gilt copper, English,...
Photograph by AndrewRT. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 4358-1857.
Ordinaries are basic bearings that may be of any tincture and that may be combined...
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The arms of Canada include the red maple leaf found in the modern Canadian flag.
Arms of Canada is a protected symbol and is reproduced by the permission of the Government of Canada
Heraldic shield with the coat of arms of Admiral Fadrique Enríquez, detail of an...
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Joseph Lees Williams Memorial Collection; photograph, Otto E. Nelson
John F. Kennedy's coat of arms is an altered version of the ancient Kennedy coat,...
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These banners are common marks of illegitimacy, though they do not always hold that...
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The arms of the Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy family, blazoned: quarterly, 1st...
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Coat of arms of New Brunswick, Can.
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The field is often divided along the lines occupied by ordinaries, just as quartering...
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In traditional arms of ladies, a woman adopts the undifferenced arms of her father....
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