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Look! It's France! Wait a Minute. No It Isn't.
Still wandering about the streets of Arras, France (You can walk down a lot of streets if you just get out there and do it!) I ran across this image shining golden in the sun that I took to be the seal...
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A Few (So Far) Unidentified Arms in Arras
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Arms on the Exterior of the Hotel de Ville, Arras, Part 1
Around the city hall, the Hotel de Ville, in Arras, France there are a row of carved lions supporting shields of arms.The building is shaped like a squared-off capital U with its base facing the Place...
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Arms on the Exterior of the Hotel de Ville, Arras, Part 2
Continuing from my last post our clockwise circumambulation (now that's not a word I get to use in everyday conversation!) around the Hotel de Ville in Arras, France, and photographing the coats of...
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Have Some Heraldry With Your Lunch, Part 1
Following the several days of the Congress in Arras, France, we signed up for an all-day excursion to some of the World War I battlefields and sites in the area.Included in the excursion was lunch at a...
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Have Some Heraldry With Your Lunch, Part 2
In addition to the flags of Flanders and Picardy, discussed in my last post, there was some more heraldry hanging on the wall of the restaurant.I tend to have mixed emotions about images, even heraldic...
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On to Canterbury!
Following our week in Arras, France, we hopped aboard the Eurostar train and took rode through the Chunnel (the Channel Tunnel) to London and then on to Canterbury in the County of Kent, England, where...
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Arms of the County of Kent
It wasn't just the arms of the City of Canterbury that can be seen in the old city, but also the arms of the County of Kent, in which the city is situated.The County arms, Gules a horse forceny argent,...
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An Admixture of City and County Arms
Kent College in Canterbury is a co-educational independent school for boarding and day pupils between the ages of three months and 18 years. It was founded in in 1855 as the Wesleyan College,...
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An Armorial War Memorial
In the small square immediately outside the gate to the grounds of Canterbury Cathedral stands a memorial "Dedicated to the honoured memory of the men of Canterbury who fell in the Great War...
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The Arms of Canterbury Cathedral
Well, technically, is the arms of the Cathedral Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral, which arms are also used by some closely related entities, such as The King's School (said to be the oldest continuously...
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An Amusing Bit of Heraldry
I found this coat of arms on Peter's Street in Canterbury, near where it becomes High Street.It caught my attention because it really does do all of the things that a coat of arms should do: it's...
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A Case of Mistaken Identity?
Next door to the Café St. Pierre on Canterbury's Peter Street was a place called the Black Griffin.I thought it was a nice use of an heraldic monster, but what I found most intriguing about it was the...
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Faux Arms
Down one of the side streets off of High Street in central Canterbury, England, was a large sign across the front of a building that said "Historical Canterbury."On each end of the sign was the image...
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A Little Commercial Heraldry, Part 1
One of the many uses of heraldry, and one which goes back literally for centuries, is the application of an heraldic element for use as a trade, or even inn, sign.This ancient (well, to we folks in the...
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A Little Commercial Heraldry, Part 2
Another nice bit of commercial heraldry was found adorning the shop of Ernest Jones, "The Diamond & Watch Specialist" on Whitefriars Street in Canterbury.Here's a closeup of the achievement of arms...
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A Little Commercial Heraldry, Part 3
Wandering, as I was wont to do, about the streets of Canterbury, England, I ran across another piece of quasi-heraldry which incorporated the white horse of Kent in a company's logo:It was a sign for...
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Military Heraldry Explained (Humor)
It's an article more than two years old, but which I just ran across today, thanks to a recent posting on Facebook by Mark A. Henderson.It's an article on Duffle Blog entitled "Army Heraldry...
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There Is a Good Reason for Heraldry's "Rule of Contrast"
No, really!I have seen it argued again and again over the years, why certain "low contrast" (color on color, or metal on metal) combinations ought to be permitted, instead of slavishly following the...
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A Little Commercial Heraldry, Part 4
Still wandering about the streets of Canterbury, looking at heraldry and heraldry-like logos, I came across the offices of "Canterbury's top game studio", Burke & Best.Their logo, on frosted glass...
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