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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 11324, member: 25"]Crests, as part of the superstructure of coats of arms (the crest is the bit on top) can be a bit generic, it takes the emblazonment (the design on the shield) to pin one down.</p><p><br /></p><p>A family with many branches could have a dozen different branches through marriage to other armigerous families, halved, quartered, and so on, and still keep the same generic crest</p><p>Is the crest all you have? It looks like something you'd see on a bookplate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 11324, member: 25"]Crests, as part of the superstructure of coats of arms (the crest is the bit on top) can be a bit generic, it takes the emblazonment (the design on the shield) to pin one down. A family with many branches could have a dozen different branches through marriage to other armigerous families, halved, quartered, and so on, and still keep the same generic crest Is the crest all you have? It looks like something you'd see on a bookplate.[/QUOTE]
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