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Celebrate International Heraldry Day!
Here's one way that you can help to celebrate International Heraldry Day on June 10. Do it with an IHD tee shirt or coffee cup or any of the other cool stuff you can get with graphics especially made...
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An Artist's Dilemma
It's a long-standing dilemma for heraldic artists: Do they put pictures of their work on the internet because doing so can help to drive sales of their works, or do they not post pictures of their work...
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Tracking Down a Coat of Arms ...
... and finding a bucket shop.A recent correspondent enlisted my aid in trying to track down the origin of a coat of arms in an old family history book, The Crum Family in America, following a line of...
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Everything You Wanted to Know (and More) ...
... about signet rings.I ran across a really great article the other day by J.A. Shapira entitled "The Signet Ring Primer" with a concise history of, and the use of, signet rings, both heraldic and...
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International Heraldry Day Is Almost Here!
International Heraldry Day this year will be on Wednesday, June 10, 2015.Why June 10?On June 10 in the year 1128, in Rouen, was knighted by his future father in law Henry I Beauclerc, Godfrey...
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In Honor of International Heraldry Day Tomorrow
International Heraldry Day is tomorrow, June 10, 2015, and in honor of the occasion, I thought I would repost a number of the coats of arms (and arms-like logos) that I have found in and about Dallas,...
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It's International Heraldry Day!
What are you going to do to help celebrate the Wonderful World of Heraldry today?
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In Honor of International Heraldry Day
In honor of International Heraldry Day today, I changed my profile picture on Facebook to this shot of me wearing the only hat that I could find in Dublin, Ireland with a coat of arms on it.The shield...
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Once Again ...
... it has been shown that you can find heraldry everywhere!It may not necessarily be accurate heraldry, but it is heraldry nonetheless. Take for example ....This was a token to be used at a shooting...
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"Wrong" State Flags (Some With Heraldry)
There's an illustrated article on the Washington Post website by Alexandra Petri and posted on June 23, 2015 whose title really caught my eye:Every state flag is wrong, and here is whyIn the article,...
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Where Did That Coat of Arms Come From?
A recent (June 10, 2015) article by Liz Coates on the website of the Eastern Daily Press helps to explain the origins of the current coat of arms of Great Yarmouth in England.One might think that they...
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Psst! Hey, Buddy!
Yeah, you. You wanna get some free downloads of some early French armorials? Naw, this is the real deal, I'm tellin' ya. Sure they're high res. What else would they be? Oh, yeah, I remember some...
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Some Heraldry for an Anniversary
The July 4 date just passed got me to thinking about the foundational document of the United States of America, the Declaration of Independence, issued 239 years ago. The publication of the...
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Heraldic Serendipity
It's always a bit amazing to me, that it's possible to go cruising about the internet, not looking for anything particular, reading an article or post here and there, and BAM! Stumble across some...
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I Expect Better
No, really, I do! When I see the production of a play put on by the Royal Shakespeare Company, I expect them to get the heraldry right. All of the heraldry.In watching the DVD of the 2013 RSC...
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A Computer Program of Interest
I periodically see a request made on one heraldic newsgroup/bulletin board/Facebook page/etc. where someone is asking about whether there is any software anywhere that would allow a person to type in a...
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More Poking Fun at Flags
Last June 26, I posted about an article that poked fun, or in some cases, tried to but didn't quite make it, at US state flags. Now I've run across another article, this one poking fun at British...
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A Scottish Call to Arms
There are some sports enthusiasts in Scotland who seem to think that the Lord Lyon King of Arms shouldn't have any authority over the emblems used by Scottish football (what we Americans call "soccer")...
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Movie Clip of the College of Arms
As some of you may have seen already - a couple of people have posted a link on Facebook, and the most recent College of Arms newsletter also included a link -- British Movietone has posted on YouTube...
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Another Movie Clip of the College of Arms
It was probably a good thing that I watched the entire British Movietone newsreel from the 1930s about the College of Arms, because there was a (marginally) related link after the closing screen of...
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