A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 93
y be inserted in this place. Heraldic devices appearupon seals in the last third of the twelfth century, and in Englandwere already established in the early part of the thirteenth cen-tury ; from that time armorial devices were continuously blazonedupon shields and pennons. The expression… … Fig. G2.—Wheel-lock pistol, 1607; hand-morfcar[for firing grenades, sixteenth century. as already stated, was originally associated with the helm, andwas finally attached to a coronet or wreath encircling it. Crestswere at first restricted to persons of high rank or imj)ortance.They rapidly…
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