Other intrest field more or less related to our main subject; crests.

[stuka f]

Very happy with my last antique shop find, as I will explain in short.
I was allways intrested in crests; familly crests, town and state crests ...
When I got in to the world of the familly crests it soon became a additional collecting field.
Familly crets can be found in all kind of subjects; buttons for personal clothing (in general silver (nikkel)for out door workers, gold (copper) for the indoor servants), on china, on pots and pan's, on flags and paintings,....name it, you might find some.
I had a nice one in wrought iron, still have some copper kitchen pots, quiet some button's, and just got this nice carved wooden crest.
It is quiet big (like 80cm wide), probably coming from a entry door or a chemeney...
Strange thing is that it is a crest of a belgian familly, and I got it here in France, as it was brought in the day before by a Belgian antique dealer....
It suffered a lot, and there is much repair to be done. But winter is coming ...;-)

 

[John Josef]

Great find very cool

 

[pickelhauben]

Very intricate.
A great find !

 

[stuka f]

Very glad with this first 2025 purchase.
I am using the sellers pic's.
It about a (missing!) link between my militaria collection and my heraldic collection.
A French sword bearing the family crest of the original owner;

 

[Sandmann]

Congratulations, it’s in wonderful condition

 

[ccj]

I too am fascinated by crest. I used to collect US Army unit crest and small items like lighters, boxes with crest. I’m also very partial to religious icons and crucifixes. It may seem odd being a Protestant.

Beautiful sword…

 

[JzPf]

Very glad with this first 2025 purchase.
I am using the sellers pic's.
It about a (missing!) link between my militaria collection and my heraldic collection.
A French sword bearing the family crest of the original owner;
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Beautiful! The nine coronet of pearls shows he was a count/comte

 

[JustinG]

I too like crests or Wappen. This passion has led me to collect schiffswappen and unit wappen.

Best Regards
JustinG

 

[911car]

My favourite crest on the left, and its variant

 

[Bobted]

Very interesting, I have an old book on heraldic crests somewhere. Well well not noticed the 911 and Wurtemberg crests were related. Rob

 

[Bobted]

snap!

 

[cptbob]

I've gotten interested in swords with family crests on them. This one is a member of the von Bulow family. From the 7 pts on the crown I am guessing he was a Baron/Freiherr. Still trying to id the owner. I have not been successful in locating him in the Ranglists. There are lots of von Bulows in the cavalry, but the only one with a title that I've found so far is a Graf (in the 7th HR).