Portal:Heraldry/Selected picture archive

May 2006
The 719 quarterings of the Grenville Diptych.

June 2006
Sir Francis Grant, Lord Lyon King of Arms, HRH The Duke of York, and Rev. Charles Warr proceeding to the Armistice Service at St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh in 1933.

July 2006
Pursuivants in procession to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle for the 2006 service of the Order of the Garter: Peter O'Donoghue, Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary (left), Alastair Bruce of Crionaich, Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary (right)

August 2006
Coats of arms displayed on shields and gonfalons, and crests mounted on helmets at a reenactment of a medieval tournament.

September 2006
A caricature of Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty, Garter Principal King of Arms, from the 1 December 1904 edition of Vanity Fair painted by Sir Leslie Ward.

October 2006
The town hall of Dendermonde, a city in Flanders, displaying heraldic banners.

November 2006
The town hall of Gouda, a city in the Netherlands, displaying heraldic banners of the arms of (left to right) the Dutch Republic (1650–1815), the County of Holland (1198–) and the Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–).

December 2006
Flags used by the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), 1892.

February 2007
The chapel of the Order of the Thistle in St Giles Cathedral. Above each stall the knight's helmet with crest and mantling (and, if a peer, the coronet of rank) is displayed. At the back of each stall is a plate bearing the knight's coat of arms.

March 2007
Oil painting (2005) of the Coat of arms of Gozdawa. Polish heraldry has about 7.000 distinct Coats of arms (used by about 40.000 Noble families), each with its own name and share by several unrelated families.