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Fairbairn's Crests gives the following attributions for this crest: A lion’s paw holding a thistle proper.

Farrow (England)
Gerbridge (England)
Hadlow (Scotland)
Harington (England)
Jay (Scotland)
Kempster (England)
Scot/Scott (Scotland)
Underwood (Ireland)

David

Well, there's good news and bad news. The bad news is, I haven't been able to identify the husband's coat of arms (on the dexter side of the shield; to the viewer's left). It's "a fess between three lions rampant", but there is a full page and half of "fess between three lions" i...

In English heraldry, I don't think there is any particular meaning to the number of crenelles (three or five) on a mural coronet; it's more something that is left up to the artist. I did find the crest ascribed to the Toy/Toye family of Gloucestershire in a different edition of Fairbairn's Crests . ...

I have a fork with a similar demi lion rampant that we believe was also made in London by Chawner & Co but in 1964. The only difference is that the lion is holding a star and we strongly suspect that it is from the Luard family, as my husband is descended from that family The crest of a demi-li...

Traintime wrote:The Spittin' Lion...he turns up everywhere with no explanation.

He's not spitting; he's sticking out his tongue!

David

The figure is a martlet perched on/atop a mural coronet.

Unfortunately, I do not find any crests of this design in Fairbairn's Crests, the best source for hunting down English crests.

David

Fairbairn's Crests gives a few possibilities. Carsey of Dykelborough, Norfolk: An arm couped at the elbow and erect vested azure purfled and cuffed argent holding in the hand a bunch of gillyflowers proper. Peck: A cubit arm vested in pale holding in the hand three flowers stalked and leaved. Yon (o...

You might try looking at the various crowns shown on Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_(heraldry) ) to see which ones match best with the one on your seal. I can't quite make out the figures on the brim of the crown on your seal to decide among several potential crowns there. David

According to Fairbairn's Crests , this crest has been used by the following families: Alchorn, Barrett, Constant, De Veulle, Douglas, Elsworth, Felbridg, Flood, Gamoll, Hackwell, Hartley, Kellock, Langton, Peake, and Trueman/Truman. Given that (unless I am misreading it) the second initial on your s...

There are a few possible attributions of this coat of arms, assuming that I am correct in believing that because of the size and placement of the mullet (the five-pointed star) is a cadency mark for a third son. Because the arms do not appear to be hatched, it is impossible without more information ...

Fairbairn's Crests translates the motto as "To pursue the track of my ancestors," and ascribes it to Bayning, Powlett, and Townshend. The coronet above the coat of arms is that of a Baron. The arms appear to be those of a younger son of the Viscount Townshend, which are identical except fo...

An English viscount's coronet would normally show eight or nine "pearls" along the upper edge, but though it only shows seven pearls, the coronet shown here is within the bounds of identifiability as an English viscount's coronet.

Just my two pence worth.

David

The other two quarters (the upper right and the lower left on the shield) are the arms of another family which has married, and brought their coat of arms, into this Johnson family. In England, this situation occurs when a woman, coming from a family where the father has a coat of arms but that fath...

The arms in the first and fourth quarters appear to be Johnson. Papworth's Ordinary of British Armorials cites: Johnson (London): Argent a pheon azure between three mascles gules. There are way too many examples of the arms in the second and third quarters, "a chevron between three roses,"...

Anyway, in New York I have read much about the wealth created by the Whaling industry, so I do wonder if the spiral horn on your engraving is meant to represent the Narwhal, a whale with a twisted horn on its head. There is no "spiral horn" in this engraving; the "spiral" elemen...

It is harder to identify with certainty when we do not have the tincture of the rose. That said, Fairbairn’s Book of Crests gives the following family names as bearing for a crest a rose: Abcot, Abcott, Anketel, Adderly, Aiton, Aitoune, Aytoun, Bull, Fraser, Gleig, Hesketh, Marmion, Pether, Shaw, St...

The heraldic term for that kind of curved sword with a partial circle cut out of the back of the blade is a seax . The entry from Fairbairn's Crests which gives a listing of the families which used a seax as their crest is: Belsted, Belstede, Belstide, Beltead, Dalton, Nottage, Pearse, Rewtoure, and...

I'm not finding this crest in my copy of Fairbairn's Crests under either lion's gamb, bear's gamb, or bear's paw.

Sorry!

David

Going through my copy of Fairbairn's Crests , I find the following: A horse’s head in complete armour bridled ; A horse’s head in armour . (The depictions of these in Fairbairn's show the spike issuant from the chamfron that make it look more than a little bit like a unicorn's head, but the bridle m...

It is, indeed, a crest. Blazoned in the language of heraldry, it would be: A wyvern statant wings elevated and addorsed . Unfortunately, this crest is a very popular one. I am attaching the entries from Fairbairn's book of Crests which list the families who used this wyvern as a crest. As you can se...