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- Subject: Re: Imperial Eagles (was: Byzantine Flags, and Another Question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.045457.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 12:54:57 GMT
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- In article <BxwG72.688@well.sf.ca.us>, dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood) writes:
- >
- > The colors of Prussia (sable and argent), by the way, are also those of the
- > house of Hohenzollern.
- > --
- > Anton Sherwood dasher@well.sf.ca.us
- > *\\* Opinions mine, but available for lease at easy terms *\\*
- > +1 415 267 0685 1800 Market St #207, San Francisco 94102 USA
-
- This leads me to a question. I have a photo of a coat of arms, supposedly
- belonging to my family. These arms are from a mantlepiece, and have not been
- authenticated, although the piece has been with the family for some time.
-
- I'll stay away from heraldric terms since i'm not fully familiar with them, and
- describe the arms in `normal' terms- a silver shield, with a single horizontal
- black bar across the middle, the width being roughly 1/4 the heigth of the
- shield.
-
- Since i've always been told that the simpler the arms, the older, i'm wondering
- if perhaps what i'm looking at is the Hohenzollern arms, not my family arms.
- The oldest records i know of for my family is a contract dated 1497, which
- mentions two brothers with the rank of Knight (the King of Sweden is the other
- party).
-
- I'm assuming that A)the Hohenzollern arms would be older than that, and B)
- someone would recognize such a basic pattern as belonging to some family or
- other a little more celebrated than mine. Any info would be appreciated.
-
- James Zuelow (or variously, Tsueloe or Zu"low with the source)
- FSJFZ@acad3.alaska.edu
-