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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 9611596, member: 5833"]Not Normandy. As Bakers has pointed out, the orientation of the lions on the shield is in the wrong direction, to sinister, the shield bearer's left. Your lions are passant while Normandy's are guardant. If the carving is true to an original, the sinister side (right side in pic) is green (vert).</p><p><br /></p><p>French is certainly a reasonable guess, although there were also English artisans who worked in ivory.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 9611596, member: 5833"]Not Normandy. As Bakers has pointed out, the orientation of the lions on the shield is in the wrong direction, to sinister, the shield bearer's left. Your lions are passant while Normandy's are guardant. If the carving is true to an original, the sinister side (right side in pic) is green (vert). French is certainly a reasonable guess, although there were also English artisans who worked in ivory.[/QUOTE]
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