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Pictures of Heralds (and a Lot of Others)
Saw a series of photographs over the weekend, an exhibit called "The Queen's People," an exhibition of a series of photographs by Hugo Rittson Thomas, that was really petty cool. Each subject, if...
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So I was continuing my reading in Heralds and Heraldry in Shakespeare’s England, ed. by Nigel Ramsay (for more information on this book, see my post of December 25, 2014 at...
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In certain times and places, at least, bearing a particular coat of arms could kill you. No, really!As explained in the article "Artificial Arms" by David Gelber of The Time Literary Supplement:On...
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Royal Worcester Heraldry
The article itself doesn't seem to have a whole lot to do with heraldry; it's about the 200-plus year old diary of one of the founders of Royal Worcester porcelain, John Flight, and how it details how...
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A New Heraldic Acquisition
I've been collecting clothing with coats of arms on it -- tshirts, baseball caps, ties -- for quite some time now. And I've shared a number of these items with you over the years. And, of course, I'm...
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Another Heraldic Find
Once again, I don't even have to go looking for it to run across heraldry, even here in what you might think at first blush is an heraldic desert. Or, more specifically, Fort Worth, Texas.I was...
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As Promised, My _Other_ Recent Heraldic Acquisition
As I said last week when talking about my new acquisition of an heraldic shirt, I had another one on the way, and it has arrived!As you can see, it's not crammed full of shields like the last one, and...
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And the Third (and Last, I Promise!) Heraldic Shirt
Well, my third (and last, at least for a while) shirt with heraldry has arrived, and it's a humdinger, if I do say so myself, with coronets, and crests, and supporters (oh, my!).As I said before, at...
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Movie Clip About the U.S. Army's Institute of Heraldry
Ran across an old (1969, but I can't tell you how much it hurts me personally to say that something from 1969 is "old", given that I was in college at that time) YouTube movie clip (8 minutes) giving a...
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Some Results of Research on Arms on Heraldic Shirt
Well, I've had the time to do some research on the latest of my heraldic shirt acquisitions.The results were surprisingly better than I had expected. But, to report things in order:All of the coronets...
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The Next Time You Visit France
Something to keep in mind the next time you go to visit France -- I ran across an article about a Museum of Heraldry in the little town of St-Jean-de-Valériscle, NNW of Nimes (from whence comes our...
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Heraldic Shields Created by Boy Scouts
A nicely-illustrated article from last Sunday, September 6, on the website of East Grinstead Online discusses the carved and painted shields on the pew ends at St. Swithun's Church there.According to...
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The headline reads:Custom-made Christian Louboutin shoes, a coat of arms and a giant doll's house modelled after your own home: The outrageous gifts on a £163,000 'bespoke-your-life tour' of...
View ArticleA Newly-Added Section of Links
In an effort to keep this blog as a hopefully relevant resource for heraldry enthusiasts, and seeing the tremendous response to a recent post about an old movie clip of the College of Arms, I have...
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What Is It With Davids and Heraldry?
Is there something about the genetic makeup of people named David that brings them to an interest in heraldry? Is there something about being named David that causes one to develop a liking for coats...
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Some (More) Nice Armorial Silver
This time its a pair of George III ambassadorial silver plates, hallmarked 1813 by silversmith Paul Storr for Charles William Stewart, 1st Baron Stewart.The plates are engraved with the Royal arms...
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A (Heraldically-Related) Tempest in Hong Kong
There is apparently a crisis of academic freedom at Hong Kong University. In a recent (September 25, 2015) article about this crisis on the website of Hong Kong Free Press, writer Alvin Y.H. Cheung...
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Another Academic Coat of Arms from Hong Kong
While I was searching on-line for a picture of the full coat of arms of Hong Kong University for the last post, I ran across this interesting shield:It's the coat of arms/logo of The Chinese University...
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And That Goes for the Coat of Arms, Too!
I ran across this the other day, and just couldn't resist sharing it with all of you.(You're welcome. I'll see myself out now.)
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I Found a "Two-Fer"
Well, that's what they call 'em down here in Texas. A "two-fer" is when you find "two things for the price of one." Even when, in this case, the "price" was "free."Driving home from work the other...
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