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The Littleton Shields in Temple Church, Part 4
Having gone through the shields down the left-hand side of the Littleton monument in Temple Church, we're going to continue our journey by crossing over the bottom and making our way up the right-hand...
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The Littleton Shields in Temple Church, Part The Last
We now continue our counter-clockwise journey around the Littleton monument in the floor of Temple Church with the last seven of the small brass shields up the right-hand side.22. _____ a chevron...
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A Tale of Two Bridges
One of the phrases that I occasionally hear or read in the newspaper here in Dallas, Texas, is the desire of the municipality to be a "world-class city." And I've never really found a good definition...
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A Royal Reburial
For those of you who haven't been following it all that closely, we are actually coming up very quickly on the reinterment of one of England's most vilified kings.Richard III, whose skeletal remains...
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A Rare Plug for an Heraldic Artist
Russell Saari, a reader of this blog and history student at the University of Wisconsin is starting a small business creating and painting shields of arms to help pay for his degree. He has begun a...
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"Trashy" Heraldry
In a Facebook post last week, Stan Zamyatin shared Heraldry Ireland : Araltas Éireann's photo to the group International Heraldry Society, with the comment “The arms of Bizerte, Tunisia - nice to see...
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Another Heraldic Memorial in Sandwich, Kent
In the Chancel of St. Peter’s Church in Sandwich, Kent, is a brass monument.It reads:Here lyeth the bodie of Thomas Gilbert, Gentleman, whowas Searcher of Kent, he had to wyfe Katherin ye Daughterof...
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Two of My Favorite Things, in One
A brief item in the most recent edition of the Gonfanon, the quarterly newsletter of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada, alerted me to this bit of the watchmaker's art which includes elements of two...
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Another New Book on Heraldry
Someday I will have to try to figure out why it is I am so attracted to heraldry, when I clearly cannot afford to buy all of the books that I feel that I must have to learn all that I want to about...
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A Short (I Hope!) Hiatus from Posting
My apologies for not keeping up with my usual schedule of blog posts this week; as some of you may have seen if we are friends on Facebook, my back yard and I had it out the Sunday before last, and the...
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The Prince of Wales Feathers
Over on the Royal Central website there is a fairly recent (March 24, 2015) article entitled "Not just a feather in the cap: a brief explanation of The Prince of Wales feathers" by Cindy Stockman which...
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In an April 18, 2015 article entitled "Call to arms over threat to Scottish club badges" on the website of The Scotsman, reporter Colin Telford "warns that many Scottish football emblems could actually...
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Some Fictional Heraldry
For those of you who are interested in such things (my wife is getting a bit hooked on the series, though I have managed to manfully resist it to date), there's an interesting article by Brian...
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This Blog Is Mentioned Again
It's always gratifying to find that this blog has been well spoken of somewhere on the internet. Some recent correspondence from heraldic artist Dr. Antonio Salmeron of Madrid, Spain, included a link...
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Some More Fictional Heraldry
Apropos of my post of April 23, relating to the heraldry of the HBO series Game of Thrones, I ran across a website that asks, and then will answer for you, the question, "What Is Your 'Game of Thrones'...
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International Heraldry Day 2015 Is Coming!
It's almost June 10, and you know what that means, right? You don't? Well, a lot of folks out there also don't know, so don't feel like you're alone in that.International Heraldry Day was begun as a...
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Well, It's Almost Like Heraldry
I like to see when people use heraldry in some way, no matter what the context is. Really, I do.It's just that, far too often, what they use is sometimes, at best, only something that's almost like...
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Celebrate International Heraldry Day!
Here's some more graphics by Tomasz Steifer to support International Heraldry Day on June 10.
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A Bit of Historical Armorial Silver
I receive the occasional email from the kind folks over at myfamilysilver.com when they have a piece that they think I might be interested in (unaware, apparently, that as a general rule their prices...
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Why? Why??!!
I respect heraldry; really, I do. Unfortunately, that respect is not always shown by others.In a somewhat cringe-worthy example of this (found in the Facebook group "Heraldry Hall of Shame"; not a...
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