Before the name of your tailor, the make and model of your car, or the size of your superyacht mattered, and before logo-laden handbags or even old school ties, the status symbol for the seriously ...

One would have thought that in the post-Vatican II era, the papacy — which had dispensed with coronations, tiaras, silken gloves, the sedia gestatoria and ostrich feather fans, — would have shelved ...

A chatty coat of arms? According to the French, it is. Known as arms parlant or ‘canting’ arms, these shorthand emblems of identification play a visual pun on the family surname. It is up to the ...

Creating a coat of arms has become a new luxury symbol. Heraldic symbols have been a thing among nobility since the Middle Ages, with many existing coats of arms dating back centuries. But more ...

Many cultural tourists would have noticed the Grand Masters’ Latin inscriptions and coat of arms on buildings, coins, medals, manuscripts and other printed material. For instance, usually Grandmasters ...

TF you want to have your crest or coat of arms put on your car by the same man who puts J. P. Morgan’s crest on his car, the thing to do is go over to 1819 Broadway, to the office of L. Proudfoot & ...