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Did more lookups. The cannon was cast by one of the Matthew Bagley bell founders, has that name engraved on it as MATTHEW BAGLEY LONDINI FECIT....
The founder, Bagley, is slightly famous in that he was killed by an explosion in his foundry, when the sand in the casting pit was slightly damp...
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Thanks, I think that’s just an unchased artifact of casting. Not high enough. I’d look at the top of the design and see a “2” at top left and a...
Guess we’ll keep working it, if no one here figures out this hand problem that’ll give me an excuse to talk to the LOC ppl.
Ok, so it is, thanks for catching that. So I’ll try putting the changed description in various places. The King person’s COA has the lions and...
I don’t know much but I think the COA pictured in the book, and the small version of it on the cannon, belonged to the viscount as long as he lived.
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Thx AJ, reading that, looks like simply “crescent” is ok.
“Two lions rampant combatant, sinister hand erect, crescent.” Is a term needed explaining the crescent being at the top?’’
“Two lions rampant combatant” maybe._So maybe now we address the crescent. It is probably just “crescent.”...
Thanks, so part of the description might be “sinister hand erect.” So what’s Heraldese for “two lions rampant facing each other.”?
[IMG] If you can’t ID this COA then if you could translate it into Heraldese, I could work with that. An employee at the Library of Congress once...
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