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Hollandic Heraldry
The Eden Spiekermann group, who were responsible for the redesign of The Economist in 2001, recently developed this logotype for the Dutch province of North Holland. The conjoined legs of the ‘N’ and...
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Dr. Cornelis Pama
Die grootste Suid-Afrikaanse heraldikus Ferreira — Bezuidenhout — Swanepoel THE GRANDPAPA OF South African heraldry studies is undoutedly Dr. Cornelis Pama, a heraldist, genealogist, author, and editor...
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Heraldic Discrepancies in Fashion
Ralph Lauren’s Modern Field Collection THERE IS ATTENTION to detail and then there is pedantry, and I hope this falls into the former rather than the latter. Among the numerous e-mails which find their...
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Antipodean Heraldic Philately
One of my favourite series of stamps comes from New Zealand. In 1929, the New Zealand Post Office commissioned the Englishman H. L. Richardson, an artist and teacher at the Wellington Technical...
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The House of Moctezuma
Noble Descendants of the Aztec Emperor The last Emperor of the Aztecs, Moctezuma II (usually anglicised as ‘Montezuma’) suffered an ignominious end: defeated by the Spanish, some accounts have him...
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Arms of the Irish Universities
University of Dublin Universitas Dublinensis; Ollscoil Átha Cliath Dublin University was founded with the idea of creating a collegiate university along the Oxford and Cambridge model. The University...
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Pope Francis’s Arms
The Vatican released information about Pope Francis’s coat of arms on Monday but the image they provided of it was very poorly drafted. Many of us were waiting for the Italian heraldic artist Marco...
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Hark, the Heralds!
A Humorous Guide to Heraldry by Jack Carlson 133 pages, hardcover, $15.99 In anticipation of a party in Oriel recently, I enjoyed a pint with some friends by the fire in the King’s Arms and was given...
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Danzig in Flag & Arms
The first time I met my friend Rafal, I noticed his necktie bedecked with a subtle heraldic pattern. “I gather you’re German,” says young Cusack, summoning his Sherlockian deductive genius. “What makes...
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A Lecture by Andrew Cusack
The College of Arms Foundation and the Committee on Heraldry of the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society cordially invite you to a talk by ANDREW CUSACK on ‘THREE ANNULETS OR’ THE VAN...
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A Bunny Rampant
The carto-heraldic creativity of MacDonald Gill If anything, I am a lover of maps, and as a cartophile it’s a fine thing that I spend half my life in South Kensington. Here you will find two of the...
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Caped Bear Cubs in Canadian Arms
As my sister was educated (or something to that effect) by Ursulines, a recent addition to Canada’s Public Register of Arms, Flags, and Badges caught my attention. The Queen of Canada granted a coat...
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The Accession
Henry Harris Brown, Proclamation of the Accession to the Throne of His Majesty King George V at Dublin, June 1911 c. 1911; Oil on canvas, 68 in. x 76.9 in. A triumphant painting, but a last hurrah....
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Arms of the Oudtshoorn Oratory
An explanation of the arms of the Afrikaans-speaking Oratory of St Philip Neri in Oudtshoorn, South Africa (edited from their own information). The heraldic achievement or the coat of arms of the...
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The Port of London
Officially there are or have been various Londons: first the City of London, founded in AD 43 and a mere square mile to this day, then the County of London created in 1889, and the creature called...
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Arms and the Man
GOVERNOR CUOMO — is there anything that man won’t fiddle with? Is there nothing that can escape his grasping hands? Are we to suffer from the incessant interference of this megalomaniac forever? The...
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Bronxville’s Coat of Arms
The coat of arms of the Village of Bronxville is a surprisingly handsome design, for which we can thank a gentleman named Lt. Col. Harrison Wright. Known to most as Hal, Wright (1887–1966) was one of...
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A Realm That Never Was
The United Kingdom of the Rio de la Plata, Chile, and Peru If we give in to temptation and attempt to see things without the benefit of hindsight, Brazil’s path to independence as a monarchy is less...
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