A treatise on heraldry, British and foreign : with English and French glossaries (1896)
Woodward, John, 1837-1898 · Edinburgh ; London : W. & A.K. Johnston · leaf 286
Stewart, Earl of Athole, hasbeen considered a personal device. Often, however, either the crest or some charge takenfrom the arms, seems, in Scotland as elsewhere, to havedone duty as the badge, A different species of badge, unrecognised by heraldicauthority, has gradually sprung up among the… … Fig. 17.—Daubeny Achievement. CHAPTER VI. EXTERNAL ORNAMENTS. I.—HELM AND CREST, WREATH, CREST-CORONET, LAMBREQUIN. Of the external ornaments of a shield of arms themost important is the helmet with its crest, to whichlater was joined the wreath or a crest-coronet, andthe lambrequins, or mantlings.…
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