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Yagowe
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Weird heraldry enthusiast, both ways that can be parsed.

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A pope, in the canting arms of Pabist, 1578, Schlesisches Wappenbuch (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, VD16 ZV 26921)
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Blue heraldic shield with a man from the waist up issuing from the bottom of the shield, wearing an ornate robe and papal crown
May 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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For #NationalTakeTheStairsDay, here are the Venetian arms of Gradenigi (München, BSB Cod.icon. 272)

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A red heraldic shield with a white staircase being climbed by a black boar
January 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Apparently today is #DistaffDay. That's an easy one! From "Silbereisen: Chronicon Helvetiae, Part I", 1576 Swiss (Aarau, Aargauer Kantonsbibliothek, MsWettF 16: 1)

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Red heraldic shield with a yellow or brown distaff and pedestal with white fiber.
January 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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For #ThreeKingsDay, here are some 16th C German attributed arms of the magi, from BnF ms. Allemand 304

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Three heraldic shields: the first blue with nine yellow stars, the second blue with a yellow star between three white crescents, and the third white with three dark-skinned human heads
January 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Today is #NationalBirdDay. Have a hoopoe! (München, BSB Hss Cod.icon. 313)
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A white heraldic shield with a hoopoe in its natural colours standing on a green hillock
January 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Whirligigs, from "Armorial Didier Richier, dit Clermont", 1577 French (Bibliothèques-Médiathèques de Metz, MS 1152)
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A blue heraldic shield with a white horizontal stripe between three white whirligigs (windmill toys)
January 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Today is #WorldDayOfPeace. Here's a dove from 1613, from the Stammbuch of Johann Michael Weckherlin.
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Blue heraldic shield with a white dove with red legs and beak holding a golden olive branch
January 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 31: Spirit

The arms of the Cavallieri di Sancto Spirito, 1605 Italian (Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, alfa. t. 4. 12)

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Blue heraldic shield with a red Maltese cross with yellow rays between the arms. On the cross is a white dive facing forward as though striking towards the viewer.
December 31, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 30: Viva

The arms of da Vivaio, 1550-1555 Italian (München, BSB Cod.icon. 277)

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A white heraldic shield with a blue chevron. On the chevron are an arrangement of 6 crescents and 9 small circles.
December 30, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 29: Telegraph

Messenger, from the arms of Lauffen, 1591 German (Universität Tübingen Universitätsbibliothek, Mh 6,1)

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White heraldic shield with green ground at the bottom, with a man dressed in blue with a green hat and cape and black boots, holding a spear in one hand and a letter in his outstretched other hand.
December 29, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 28: Master

This master of disguise, from a 17th C 'impresa' (Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod.Triv. 2168)

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A wolf in sheep's clothing, and above it a hand issuing from a cloud holding a ribbon inscribed with 'ETA CHONSO'
December 28, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 27: Struck

Furisons interlaced in triangle, each striking flames, 1563 (Austrian State Archives, AT-OeStA/AVA Adel RAA 219.22)

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Heraldic shield divided into quarters. The top left and bottom right are red, each with a gold sheaf of wheat. The top right and bottom left are white, each with three red fire irons connected to form a triangle, their striking surfaces each touching a piece of flint surrounded by flames.
December 27, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 26: Shine

Hungarian arms from 1576, the Latin blazon of which translates to "in the lower red field of which the sun shines brightly, while in the upper three stars, placed in order, are seen to twinkle".

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A heraldic shield, the top half blue with three yellow six-pointed stars, the bottom half red with a yellow sun with a face.
December 26, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 25: Hero

Arms showing Prometheus, 1613, from the Stammbuch of Johann Michael Weckherlin (Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.hist.oct.218)

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A heraldic shield with blue sky and green land, with a chained Prometheus having his liver eaten by an eagle.
December 25, 2024 at 5:14 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 24: Way

The canting arms of Wegmacher, 16th C (München, BSB, cgm 1952). The Wegmacher (lit. 'way-maker') was responsible for building and maintaining gravel or dirt roads.

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Black heraldic shield with a man dressed in a short white tunic holding a large hoe or axe over his shoulder.
December 24, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 23: Paradise

The arms of Michael Ploz, 1604 (Austrian State Archives, AT-OeStA_AVA_Adel_RAA_321.45)

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Heraldic shield showing a green field with mountains in the distance and an apple tree on a hillock in the foreground. The sky is partly blue and partly pink and orange, like a sunrise or sunset. A yellow sun with a face shines its rays on the tree.
December 23, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 22: River

Squirrel cruising down a river on a chunk of wood, 1623 (Austrian State Archives, AT-OeStA/AVA Adel RAA 449.22)

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Green heraldic shield with a light blue river running diagonally across it. In the river is a reddish brown squirrel holding a nut and sitting on a chipped plank of yellow wood.
December 22, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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#Heraldecember
2024 - Day 21: One

Unicorn's horn, 1613, from the Stammbuch of Hieronymus Köler (Niederösterreich Landesarchiv, HS StA 0084)

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Heraldic shield divided into 5 diagonal stripes - yellow, red, blue, red, and yellow. On the blue stripe is a white unicorn's horn. The crest is the top half of a white unicorn.
December 21, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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The arms of Schrotlin, "Or, a pair of stag beetle's attires proper". 1601, from the Album Amicorum of Johannes Fabri (Weimar, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Stb 130)
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December 20, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 20: Purple

Zimmernsche Chronik, 1566 German (Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.Don580,a-b)

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Mainly white heraldic shield with intricate silver patterns, the top third is purple
December 20, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 19: Swing

Door hinge. 1578, Polish (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, VD16 ZV 26921)

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Red heraldic shield with an ornate white door hinge
December 19, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 18: Soldier

Swans with guns, 1607 (Austrian State Archives, OeStA_AVA_Adel_RAA_56.31)

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Blue heraldic shield with a white swan atop a gun in grey and brown. The crest is a crown with a swan between two guns.
December 18, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 17: Silence

Ermine spots in the arms of Brittany, 16th C Spanish (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España MSS 1196)

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A white heraldic shield with black ermine spots that look more like tally-marks
December 17, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 16: Africa

The attributed arms of the "King of Africa", 16th C German (Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 17). I have no idea if it's a coincidence or not that the field uses the same tinctures as the modern Pan-African Flag.

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Heraldic shield divided in a Y shape, the top black, the left green, and the right red, with a yellow sun with a face with three blue semi-circles attached.
December 16, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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#Heraldecember 2024 - Day 15: Time

Two renditions of the arms of Ulrich Schniep, a scientific instrument maker in the late 16th C, with a sundial crest. One has the crest drawn as a polyhedral sundial, and the other as a diptych sundial.

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Heraldic shield with a half-globe and staffs and stars. The crest is an octahedron marked as a sundial, including inset compass, on a pedestal below a sun, all between two wings. Heraldic shield with a half-globe and staffs and stars. The crest is an diptych sundial, including inset compass, below a sun, all between two wings.
December 15, 2024 at 4:54 PM