"unaltered escutcheon of pretence in the centre. The lozenge shape of quasi-escutcheon is also used for funerary hatchments for both men and women. Pretoria High School for Girls in South Africa is one of the few all-girls schools that was granted permission to use the lozenge as part of its coat of arms. The points of the shield refer to specific positions thereon and are used in blazons to describe where a charge should be placed. An ""inescutcheon"" is a smaller escutcheon that is placed within or superimposed over the main shield of a coat of arms. This may be"
"The banner is of gold (or) and bears the original Latin motto of the school in black (sable) upper case letters. The banner shall be neither cut nor clipped. The edges shall be straight. It shall be folded under once at each end. On the escutcheon shall be charged one heraldic lion or above three birds or, each of a different kind. The two shall be side by side beneath the feet of the lion. Beneath them shall be the final, which stands on the lowest point of the shield. The birds shall all look left while the lion passant"
"blue field. Each tower, the middle one taller and wider than the other two, is topped with a battlement with three crenels and has a black vertical loophole and a black window. In the wall there is a gate with a pair of open golden doors with fleur-de-lis-shaped metalwork and a raised golden grate. Inside the gate there is the White Eagle with a golden crown , beak and talons. The escutcheon has a typically Renaissance shape and is topped with a golden Crown of Bolesław I the Brave with fleurs-de-lis, closed with a globus cruciger (an orb with a"
"Irish authorities have permitted a traditional shield under certain circumstances, and in Canadian heraldry the shield is now regularly granted. The whole surface of the escutcheon is termed the field, which may be plain, consisting of a single tincture, or divided into multiple sections of differing tinctures by various lines of partition; and any part of the field may be ""semé"", or powdered with small charges. The edges and adjacent parts of the escutcheon are used to identify the placement of various heraldic charges; the upper edge, and the corresponding upper third of the shield, are referred to as the"
"Charge (heraldry) In heraldry, a charge is any emblem or device occupying the field of an ""escutcheon"" (shield). This may be a geometric design (sometimes called an ""ordinary"") or a symbolic representation of a person, animal, plant, object or other device. In French blazon, the ordinaries are called ""pièces"" while other charges are called ""meubles"" (""i.e."" ""[the] mobile [ones]""). The term ""charge"" can also be used as a verb; for example, if an escutcheon depicts three lions, then it is said to be ""charged with three lions;"" similarly, a crest or even a charge itself may be ""charged"", such as"
"wide white or silver border on which is charged in the upper left hand corner a sphinx. In the upper right is a four-leafed flower, while draped around the bottom is a link chain fastened at the end with a five-pointed star and chained in the center with a lock. In the center of the shield is the top of an Ionian column supporting a lamp of knowledge. The crest consists of the conventionalized crest wreath, upon which rests a pallet with three brushes inserted into it. The mantling is gracefully draped around this. The stroll ribbon beneath the escutcheon"
"sees it). In the upper division of the shield appears three silver crescent moons, while the lower division holds seven silver crosslets alluding to the numerical designation of the battalion. The primary charge of the shield however is the three large ""artillery red"" arrow heads or pheons that rest upon the silver band. It is from these three pheons that the nickname for the battalion ""the Pheons"" is derived. The unit's motto was shortened to ""Nunquam Fractum"" (Never Broken) written in silver on an ""artillery red"" scroll beneath the shield. The unit would carry this designation throughout its tour of"
"to the colonies, especially in Berlin and other notable cities, acquiring large numbers of competent officials for his administrations. The family motto of the Prussian branch is """"In Virtute Pertinax"""". Coat of Arms: An escutcheon with the field divided into four parts. Left half: argent tincture, a gules lion holding a sinople eradicated oak tree between its paws; azure tincture charged with three or mullets; Right half: a gules castle with three towers on an argent tincture; sinople tincture charged with three argent roses below it. A ""Grafenkrone"" (Count's coronet) as helmut on top of the escutcheon, crested with an"
"escutcheon appear to epitomise Claude Martin's life. The ship recalls his voyage to India where he established his fortune. The lion with the pennant represents his career as an officer in the East India Company and with the Nawab of Oudh The setting sun behind the castellated building to the right of the shield has been said to point to the sunset of his days and the large part which the building of ""Constantia"" played in his later years. The coat of arms and the accompanying motto ""Labore et Constantia"" are now shared by all the schools founded by Martin."
"of the field. The Crest: A buck's head, of the natural color, cut off and placed on a scroll, blue and yellow. The Motto and Badge: On a scroll beneath the shield, the motto: Vermont: Freedom and Unity. The Vermonter's Badge: two pine branches of natural color, crossed between the shield and scroll."" The crest and Vermonter's Badge, can also be seen, in modified form, on the Vermont Military Crest. The ""Vermonter's Badge"" described in the statute was worn as an expression of Vermont identity by citizens during the period of the Vermont Republic, and again during the American Civil"
"into two fields, each section had an escutcheon - something related to the origin of the person to which it belonged. The right section contained the image of Our Lady of Oostrum. The left field showed the Sind Desert with its distinctive animal, the camel, while in the background rise the mountains of Baluchistan. With the motto ""Sub Matris tutela"" (under maternal protection), Lemmens dedicated his work as superior of the Dutch mission in Karachi under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin, the patroness of the Franciscans and of his birthplace. The shield shows that it belonged to a religious"
"to represent England. To celebrate St George's Day, in 2001, Royal Mail issued first– and second-class postage stamps with the Royal Crest of England (a crowned lion), and the Royal Arms of England (three lions passant) respectively. Various accessories to the escutcheon (shield) were added and modified by successive English monarchs. These included a crest (with mantling, helm and crown); supporters (with a compartment); a motto; and the insignia of an order of knighthood. These various components made up the full achievement of arms. The first addition to the shield was in the form of a crest borne above the"
"the smaller fields in the escutcheon bearing a symbol of a constituent community’s patron saint, namely a bear (Saint Maximin), a dragon (Saint George) and a rose (Saint Felicity), while the fourth field bears the red Trier cross in reference to the community’s one-time territorial allegiance to the Electorate of Trier. The formerly dominant industry of agriculture is still important today with almost 70% of the community’s area being worked by fewer than ten full-time operations. Brechen has, however, developed into a residential community, 90% of whose working inhabitants earn their livelihood in surrounding towns, mainly in the Frankfurt Rhein-Main"
"three mullets or; Right half: argent tincture with a gules castle with three towers; sinople tincture charged with three roses argent below it. A ""Grafenkrone"" (Count's coronet) as helmut on top of the escutcheon, crested with an or fleur-de-lis. Two or lions supporting the escutcheon. Motto: """"In Virtute Pertinax"""". Heraldic symbolism: The lion symbolizes courage; the eradicated oak tree symbolizes strength and endurance; the towers are symbols of defense and of individual fortitude; the mullets (5-star) symbolizes divine quality bestowed by god; the rose is a symbol of hope and joy; the fleur-de-lis is the floral emblem of France; the"
"Ratcha Lanchakon Pracham Phaen Din Sayam"" (พระราชลัญจกรประจำแผ่นดินสยาม). The escutcheon or shield, is divided into three quadrants. The first (chief) quadrant depicts an Airavata on a yellow field. This quadrant represents the Thai heartland, the three heads of the elephant represents its northern, central and southern regions. The lower left quadrant (dexter base) depicts a white elephant on a red field. This quadrant represents the Laotian suzerainty (the symbol comes for its native name ""Lan Xang"", land of a million elephants). The lower right quadrant (sinister base) depicts two-crossed krises (one with and one without a scabbard) on a pink field,"
"a place where eagles congregate. As such, the coat could be said to fall into the category of canting arms. The blazon is ""Argent, on a bend sable, three eagles displayed or"" which means that on a heater shield coloured silver appears a wide sash-like strip of black running diagonally from the top left toward the bottom right of the escutcheon on which is placed a row of three golden eagles with their wings open and bodies showing. According to ""Burke's General Armory"" (1884) and ""Burke's General Armory Two"" (1974), this basic coat of arms, sometimes varying in one detail"
"a gules lion holding a sinople eradicated oak tree between its paws; azure tincture charged with three or mullets; Right half: a gules castle with three towers on an argent tincture; sinople tincture charged with three argent roses below it. A ""Grafenkrone"" (Count's coronet) as helmut on top of the escutcheon, crested with a or fleur-de-lis. Two or lions supporting the escutcheon. Motto: """"In Virtute Pertinax"""". Heraldic Symbolism: The lion symbolizes courage; the eradicated oak tree symbolizes strength and endurance; the towers are symbols of defense and of individual fortitude; the mullets (5-star) symbolizes divine quality bestowed by god; the"
"tournament. The primary element of an heraldic achievement is the shield, or escutcheon, upon which the coat of arms is depicted. All of the other elements of an achievement are designed to decorate and complement these arms, but only the shield of arms is required. The shape of the shield, like many other details, is normally left to the discretion of the heraldic artist, and many different shapes have prevailed during different periods of heraldic design, and in different parts of Europe. One shape alone is normally reserved for a specific purpose: the lozenge, a diamond-shaped escutcheon, was traditionally used"
"red shield; its body and wings in white, and tongues, beaks, legs and claws in gold, between two golden fleur-de-lis. The inescutcheon stands for the Serbian nation; in a red shield, a cross in the midst of four firesteels. A blazon in heraldic terms is: ""Gules, a bicephalic eagle Argent armed Or, two fleurs-de-lys Or. Overall an escutcheon Gules, a cross Argent between four firesteels Argent. All crowned with a royal crown."" The design on the inescutcheon has been used by Serbian states and the Serbian church since the Middle Ages. The four shapes around the central cross are a"
"an eagle upon it with extended pinions, holding in the right talon a palm branch and a bundle of arrows in the left talon, with the word ""Mississippi"" above the eagle; the lettering on the shield and the eagle to be in gold; below the shield two branches of the cotton stalk, saltierwise, as in submitted design, and a scroll below extending upward and one each side three-fourths of the length of the shield; upon the scroll, which is to be red, the motto be printed in gold letters upon white spaces, as in design accompanying, the motto to be"
"paw a naked scimitar Argent hilted Or and in sinister an escutcheon on a fess Sable three plates. Motto OVER, UNDER OR THROUGH. The shield is of yellow – the Cavalry color; the blue bend is for service as Infantry; the black Maltese cross is for the service in Puerto Rico; the red keystone is the Divisional insignia of the Twenty Eighth Division in which elements of the First Cavalry and the Eighth Infantry served, and the five stars represent the five major operations of the Twenty Eight Division. The crest is that of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. The"
"four parts. Left half: argent tincture, a lion rampant gules; azure tincture charged with three mullets or below it; Right half: azure tincture charged with three mullets or; argent tincture charged with three gules bendlets dexter below it. A Count's coronet as helmut on top of the escutcheon. Two or lions supporting the escutcheon. Heraldic symbolism: The lion symbolizes courage; the mullets (5-star) symbolize divine quality bestowed by god; The bendlets represent the scarf or shield suspender of a knight commander signifying defence or protection; granted to those who have distinguished themselves as commanders. A count's coronet to demonstrate rank"
"sinople tincture charged with three argent roses below it. A ""Grafenkrone"" (Count's coronet) as helmut on top of the escutcheon, crested with a or fleur-de-lis. Two or lions supporting the escutcheon. Motto: """"In Virtute Pertinax"""". Heraldic Symbolism: The lion symbolizes courage; the eradicated oak tree symbolizes strength and endurance; the towers are symbols of defense and of individual fortitude; the mullets (5-star) symbolizes divine quality bestowed by god; the rose is a symbol of hope and joy; the fleur-de-lis is the floral emblem of France; the coronet is a symbol of victory, sovereignty and empire. A Count's coronet to demonstrate"
"is an escutcheon based on Macau's colonial coat of arms before 1999 (elements consisting of the five blue escutcheons from the coat of arms of Afonso I of Portugal, five green and white waves and a gold Chinese dragon on blue background holding a blue escutcheon from Afonso I of Portugal) The lower portions of the emblem is the Scouting motto: Sempre Pronto (Portuguese) and ""隨時準備"" (Chinese) meaning ""Always Ready"" in English. The Scouts' headquarters is ""The Fortress"" at Jardim Camoes, a 150-year-old well-preserved Portuguese-style fortress dating from colonial Macau and a famous tourist spot in the city. The Fortress"
"and trumpet. The drum, almost without exception, is of the field drum type. Since musical notation is a comparatively recent invention, it is not found in early heraldry, though it does appear in 20th century heraldry. Japanese mon are sometimes used as heraldic charges. They are blazoned in traditional heraldic style rather than in the Japanese style. Charge (heraldry) In heraldry, a charge is any emblem or device occupying the field of an ""escutcheon"" (shield). This may be a geometric design (sometimes called an ""ordinary"") or a symbolic representation of a person, animal, plant, object or other device. In French"
"the United States of America, Longacre's design focused on the shield, or escutcheon as a defensive weapon, symbolizing strength and self-protection through unity. The upper part of the shield, or ""chief"", symbolizes Congress, while the 13 vertical stripes, or ""paleways"" symbolize the states; consequently the entire escutcheon symbolizes the strength of the federal government through the unity of the states. The crossed arrows, whose ends are visible near the bottom of the shield, symbolize nonaggression, but imply readiness against attack. The laurel branches, taken from Greek tradition, symbolize victory. In heraldic engraving, vertical lines represent red, clear areas white and"
"are blazoned as: ""Azure, an archiepiscopal cross in pale or surmounted by a pall proper charged with four crosses patee fitchee sable"". The arms of Tenison, placed on the sinister side of the escutcheon are blazoned as: ""Gules, a bend engrailed argent voided azure, between three leopard's faces or jessant-de-lys azure"". In standard English: a red field bearing a white (or silver) diagonal band with scalloped edges, and a narrower blue band running down its centre. This lies between three gold heraldic lion's faces, each of which is pierced by a fleur-de-lys entering through the mouth. These arms are a"
"crests and badges) – they are more usefully considered here. These include the escutcheon or inescutcheon, lozenge, fusil, mascle, rustre, billet, roundel, fountain, and annulet. Several other simple charges occur with comparable frequency. These include the mullet or star, crescent and cross. One of the most frequently found charges in heraldry, if not ""the"" most, is the ""cross"", which has developed into, some say, 400 varieties. When the cross does not reach the edges of the field, it becomes a mobile charge. The plain ""Greek cross"" (with equal limbs) and ""Latin cross"" (with the lower limb extended) are sometimes seen,"
"perpetuate the 37th Battalion (Northern Ontario), CEF, the 74th Battalion, CEF, the 76th Battalion, CEF, the 126th Battalion (Peel), CEF, the 164th Battalion (Halton and Dufferin), CEF, and the 234th Battalion (Peel), CEF. In the centre of a wreath of thistle and maple leaves, the crest of Viscount Peel (on a wreath of the colours argent and azure, a demi lion rampant or, gorged with a collar azure charged with three bezants, and holding between the paws a shuttle argent) resting on a scroll bearing the motto ""Air Son Ar Duthchais"" and ensigned by the Crown; below the wreath, a"
"Land Operations. The U.S. Army Field Artillery enables maneuver commanders to dominate in Unified Land Operations through effective targeting, integration and delivery of fires. Shield: Gules, a field piece of the 16th century paleways in plan Or. Crest: On a wreath of the colors (Or and Gules) the arm of Saint Barbara embowed clothed of the second, issuing from the upper portion of an embattled tower Argent, and grasping flashes of lightning Proper. Motto: CEDAT FORTUNA PERITIS (Let Fortune Yield to Experience, or Skill is Better than Luck). Symbolism:The shield is red for Artillery; the field piece depicted, having been"
"argent roses below it. A ""Grafenkrone"" (Count's coronet) as helmut on top of the escutcheon, crested with a or fleur-de-lis. Two or lions supporting the escutcheon. Motto: """"In Virtute Pertinax"""". Heraldic symbolism: The lion symbolizes courage; the eradicated oak tree symbolizes strength and endurance; the towers are symbols of defense and of individual fortitude; the mullets (5-star) symbolizes divine quality bestowed by god; the rose is a symbol of hope and joy; the fleur-de-lis is the floral emblem of France; the coronet is a symbol of victory, sovereignty and empire. A Count's coronet to demonstrate rank and because the family"
"or hopes for"". Upon the escutcheon (shield), there are three main features: the common heath, the escallop shells and the book. The heath refers to the common heath (""Epacris impressa""), the pink form, or pink heath form of which is the floral emblem of the State of Victoria. This is a highly relevant symbol, La Trobe being as it was upon establishment Victoria's third university. In a sense, this floral symbol also reflects the university's attempts to cater to all Victorians, particularly regional Victorians who at the time had felt excluded by the establishment of metropolitan-centred universities, and communities from"
"Kugeln belegtes blaues Buch, begleitet vorne schrägrechts ein schwarzer Schlägel, hinten schräglinks ein schwarzer Hammer, unten drei silberne Hifthörner."" The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess, argent a book azure surmounted by three bezants, the whole between a hammer bendwise and a pick bendwise sinister sable, and gules three bugle-horns of the first. The central charge in the escutcheon’s upper field, the book, is Saint Nicholas’s attribute, thus representing the municipality's and the church's patron saint. This is flanked by a hammer and a pick, together a traditional symbol for mining, which was once"