Album of Diestamping. [Royal and Commercial Crest and Flag Collection].
Rare Album of Diestamping; containing over 1900 British crests, monograms, flags and pennants
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Rare album collection of over 1900 examples of crests, monograms, flags and pennants from British schoolhouses, colleges, universities, libraries, clubs, societies, hotels, railway companies, ports, steam navigation companies, fishing steamers, and banks. Folio, bound in full leather with gilt titles and ruling to the spine. In very good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Heraldic designs came into general use among European nobility in the 12th century. Systematic, heritable heraldry had developed by the beginning of the 13th century. Exactly who had a right to use arms, by law or social convention, varied to some degree between countries. Early heraldic designs were personal, used by individual noblemen (who might also alter their chosen design over time). Arms become hereditary by the end of the 12th century, in England by King Richard I during the Third Crusade (1189–1192). In the heraldic traditions of England and Scotland, an individual, rather than a family, had a coat of arms. In those traditions coats of arms are legal property transmitted from father to son; wives and daughters could also bear arms modified to indicate their relation to the current holder of the arms.
Album of Diestamping. [Royal and Commercial Crest and Flag Collection].
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