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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 32 - Just for Fun
So here we are, deep in the depths of winter in the northern hemisphere of our planet.Did you know that there's a season-appropriate fun way to use your coat of arms? Try carving them into an ice...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 33 - Just for Fun
Continuing our potpourri of "just for fun" ideas with what to do with your heraldry, here are a few more possibilities:Are you a musician? Do you play a guitar? Have you thought of putting your coat of...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 34 - Just for Fun
The past few years have made many of us much more aware of the importance of Personal Protective Equipment in helping to keep ourselves safer from diseases like Covid-19 or the flu.Of course, if we are...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 35 - Just for Fun
We're going to finish up the "Just for Fun" section of things you can do with your coat of arms with what many consider to be the ultimate self-identifier: tattooing your heraldry onto your body!Now,...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 35 - The End
We are now at the end, in more than one way, of our posts of things that you can do with your coat of arms.It's the end in one way, because this is the final post on this topic.And it's the end in...
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The American President's New Challenge Coin
Challenge coins are "a small coin or medallion that symbolizes membership in an organization. They are often used by the military, law enforcement, and other organizations." They may also be used to...
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Heraldry in the News!
Frankly, one of the sub-headlines was a bit of a shocker to me: "A small Spanish town is reportedly considering legal action against Meghan Markle after the Duchess of Sussex unveiled the logo for her...
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Serendipity!
It can be fascinating when fields of study overlap, can't it? Take, for example, the three overlapping areas of heraldry, sigillography, and vexillology. Each of these fields have their own specialized...
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Scandal, Sensation, or Breaking New?
Well, given the date of the manuscript, I don't think it can be truly called "breaking news." Just sayin'.We all are, or at least, ought to be, familiar with the coat of arms of the City of...
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Heraldry in the Wild!
Well, "in the wild" for some version of a pretty tame, really, domesticated "wild."Anyway, I was recently reminded that I had run across this particular piece of heraldry at an antique show in Fort...
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Heraldry in the News!
Well, to be frank (or, really, David), some of the news about this item isn't all that new.The news article, in the Hampshire Chronicle, notes that a carved coat of arms was discovered in the back...
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My Very Own "Heraldry Helper"
Some of you reading this will have already heard that last October, I lost my wife of 31 years, Jo Ann Appleton, née Armistead.Indeed, it was her cancer diagnosis in August 2023 that called a sudden...
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A Great Display of Heraldry at Ely Cathedral
While we were visiting Ely Cathedral in 2022, while I was rushing around like made taking pictures of all the heraldry I could see because the tour bus was only giving us a limited amount of time...
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Heraldry on the Façade of Bishop's Old Ely Palace
Continuing to look at some of the pictures of heraldry that my late wife Jo took for me, today we look at the façade of Bishop's Old Ely Palace, next door to Ely Cathedral in, naturally enough, Ely,...
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Two Coats of Arms Today, of a Bishop and of a Dean
Today we're going to look at the heraldic memorials of two of Ely Cathedral's churchmen.The first is that of James Russell Woodford, Bishop of Ely 1873-1885.Bishop Woodford was born in 1820, the only...
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Some Unusually Marshaled Arms on Bishop Redman's Memorial
A sign by the tomb of Bishop Richard Redman notes that he was originally Abbott of Shap Abbey, and later Bishop of both St. Asaph and Exeter, before coming to Ely. He worked for both King Richard III...
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The Armorial Tomb of a Dean of Ely
Today we come to the armorial tomb of Augustus Duncombe, Dean of Ely 1858-1880.Augustus was the fifth son of Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham. The Dean has a short entry on Wikipedia at...
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Another Armorial Memorial in Ely Cathedral
Today's armorial memorial in Ely Cathedral was erected by his wife, who survived him by nearly 40 years.This is the memorial of Charles Fleetwood, a son of William Fleetwood, Bishop of Ely. He was...
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Where Was This Picture of Heraldry Taken?
Okay, I'll admit it: I'm at a bit of a loss to know where Jo took this picture of a coat of arms for me. The automatic number that her camera put on this doesn't match up with any of the others that...
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Heraldry (or Is It?) in the Wild
Placing things on, or simply the use of, a shield has long been popular as a symbol of protection. I've seen usage like that for organizations as disparate as police departments, security companies,...
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The Worshipful Company of Glaziers
It's always fun to be looking through a set of photographs and find a coat of arms that one recognizes from somewhere else, an "old friend" as it were.I was going through the last of the pictures that...
View ArticleA New Resource for Heraldry Enthusiasts
If you haven't seen it yet, our good friends over at Heraldry of the World (You do know about the Heraldry of the World ("HotW") website, don't you? And visit it regularly? No? Then stop reading this...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 36 - I Thought We Were Done With These!
So, just when we thought the "What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms?" series was all done, finishing up in my post of February 20, 2025 (the series began way back on October 21, 2024), wouldn't you know...
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An English Coat of Arms With an American Connection
Not having taken any trips recently to photograph and identify coats of arms and post them here, I have been reduced to going through pictures from previous trips to find and identify heraldry that I...
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"They're Everywhere! They're Everywhere!"
"Who?", you may ask?Well, first, "they're everywhere" pretty much because we're looking at yet another stained glass window in yet another English church, and the people who made those stained glass...
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