I've Been Translated!
A guest post that I recently did for the Fine Legacy blog (http://finelegacy.com/blog/family-crest-21st-century-america/) about heraldry in 21sts Century America has been translated into German and...
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Norway, Part Seven - Empty Shields
I love to see heraldic decoration on buildings, you know? Especially some of the baroque stuff with flourishes and frou-frou around the shields.But there are occasions when I think they just missed...
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Does Dublin Need "An Updated Coat of Arms"?
I ran across an article last last week (October 9, 2014) entitled "Time to tell Dublin's old motto: `You're fired'" by Frank McNally. Mr. McNally seems to feel that because (1) Dublin's coat of arms...
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Norway, Part Eight - Monograms on Shields
While I can applaud the desire not to fall into the trap of erecting a perfectly good shield or cartouche and then leave it completely blank (see my last post for some examples of these in Oslo), I'm...
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Norway, Part Nine - Arms or Not?
I did run across just a few shields in Oslo where I wasn't certain whether they were a real coat of arms or if they were simply artistic decoration on what would otherwise have been a blank shield....
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Norway, Part 10-A: The Posthallen
The single best (or, at the very least, the biggest) display of heraldry that I saw in Oslo was actually too big to be photographed in a single picture. Admittedly, this is at least partly because in...
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Norway, Part 10-B: The Posthallen Continued
Continuing our review of the arms carved (in granite, I believe) on the exterior of the Posthallen in Oslo, here are the third and fourth columns, starting at the top of Column...
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A second guest article of mine has been posted over on the Fine Legacy blog, Entitled "Heraldry Is All Around Us," it's a short article, with specific examples, of a theme that I write about here...
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Norway, Part 10-C: The Posthallen Concluded
Concluding our review of the arms carved on the exterior of the Posthallen in Oslo, here are the fifth and sixth columns of arms, starting at the top of Column 5:BergenMeløy (maybe. Meløy comes...
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Heraldry on My Birthday
You know how I keep saying that "you can find heraldry everywhere"? Well, we proved it once again when we went out on my most recent birthday. (No, I'm not going to tell you which birthday it was,...
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An Heraldic Conundrum
Having finished giving you the heraldic highlights from our week last August in Norway, we now move on to England, where we spent another week. I am not planning on boring you with all of the pictures...
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Entirely Unexpected Heraldry in London
On our first full day in London last August, we had gone by the Houses of Parliament and alongside Westminster Abbey on our way to visit St. Margaret's Church (where members of another branch of the...
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Family Memorials, Family Stories, and Family Heraldry
The sheer number of memorials, many of them armorial, in churches in England is almost overwhelming. We saw very many of which we only had the time to photograph before moving on to the next one, and...
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Curses, Foiled Again!
So there I was, standing in St. Peter's Church in Sandwich, England, walking about and photographing just about every bit of heraldry I could see. And there was plenty to see!But among the heraldry...
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Heraldry In My Face
Well, not literally, but still ... I've said many times that you can find heraldry everywhere. The other day proved that you don't even have to go looking for it; sometimes, it will find you!\I was...
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A (Less Than Ideal) New Grant of Arms
Grays of Westminster, renowned for its exemplary level of customer service (and for the fact that it sells only Nikon cameras), has become the first camera shop in the world to be granted a coat of...
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Thanksgiving Heraldry
Well, it's Thanksgiving Day here in the United States, a day set aside to be with friends and family, to stuff ourselves with turkey or ham, watch football, and get ready to fight the crowds and begin...
View ArticleI’ve Been (Heraldry) Book Shopping
As some of you may know (and some of you may not), I have a website on which I try to promote myself as a speaker on various aspects of heraldry and genealogy, and where I also offer a number of...
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An Heraldic Memorial
It is not permitted to take photographs inside Westminster Abbey, but there are plenty of heraldic items to photograph in the Cloisters and the Chapter House there, where cameras are allowed.One really...
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Lunch With Heraldry (or Vice Versa)
While wandering about Westminster in London, we found ourselves feeling a “might peckish” around lunchtime, and were looking for a place to eat when we ran across the following:Did we have lunch there?...
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