A Landscape Arms - The Seychelles
Posted: 08 Jan 2014, 11:58
Yes the Landscape Heraldry seems to have lived on as can bee seen in the Arms of the Seychelles granted by Royal Warrant 27 May 1976. The Arms shows Flora and Fauna indigenious to the Islands. The Motto hails from the one used on the 1903 Badge of the Crown Colony.
Picture form Wikimedia Commons originaly published in Flaggen und Wappen by Hans-Ulirch Herzog, VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1982. Perhaps a hint that Heraldry had become accepted during the Final Years of the German Democratic Republic, that such a Book could be published.
The Blason reads:
Arms: A coast of the Indian Ocean, on the shore a Seychelles-palm and a Aldabra giant Tortoise, in the Ocean an island and a schooner, all proper.
Crest: On a steel helmet to the dexter, lambrequined parted per fess Gules and Azure, lined Argent, three waves Azure, Argent and Azure, and a hovering White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaeton lepturus - Phaetonidæ), proper.
Supporters: Two Indo-Pacific Sailfishes (Istiophorus Platypterus - Scombroidei) proper.
Motto: FINIS CORONAT OPUS (The Completion crowns the Work).
Picture form Wikimedia Commons originaly published in Flaggen und Wappen by Hans-Ulirch Herzog, VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1982. Perhaps a hint that Heraldry had become accepted during the Final Years of the German Democratic Republic, that such a Book could be published.
The Blason reads:
Arms: A coast of the Indian Ocean, on the shore a Seychelles-palm and a Aldabra giant Tortoise, in the Ocean an island and a schooner, all proper.
Crest: On a steel helmet to the dexter, lambrequined parted per fess Gules and Azure, lined Argent, three waves Azure, Argent and Azure, and a hovering White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaeton lepturus - Phaetonidæ), proper.
Supporters: Two Indo-Pacific Sailfishes (Istiophorus Platypterus - Scombroidei) proper.
Motto: FINIS CORONAT OPUS (The Completion crowns the Work).