In honour of the International Day of Forests (21 March), a few arboreal armorial bearings :
From England : Mansfield Borough Council have a crest displaying "an oak tree proper", which represents the famous Sherwood Forest (College of Arms, 1892).
From Austria : the arms of the town of Wald am Schoberpass in the province of Styria (1970).
From South Africa: Marthinus Linde's arms have "a chief firtree-topped", referring to his wife's maiden name Bosch (which means 'forest') (Bureau of Heraldry, 1983).
If you would like to add some more heraldic trees to this forest, please do so.
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Re: International Day of Forests
Alingsås in Sweden
Alnö in Sweden
Alstad in Sweden
Alingsås sports an oak (ek in Swedish), whereas Alnö has an alder (al in Swedish). Alstad features a willow (pilträd). So despite the "Al" beginning, two of the towns abjured the obvious cant.
Alnö in Sweden
Alstad in Sweden
Alingsås sports an oak (ek in Swedish), whereas Alnö has an alder (al in Swedish). Alstad features a willow (pilträd). So despite the "Al" beginning, two of the towns abjured the obvious cant.
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Re: International Day of Forests
Arms of the U.S. state of Maine, drawn according to the legal blazon ("A Shield, argent, charged with a Pine Tree, a Moose-Deer, at the foot of it, recumbent.")
Unfortunately, 19th century artists couldn't leave well enough alone, and began emblazoning the arms as a full color landscape, so now invariably seen like this:
Unfortunately, 19th century artists couldn't leave well enough alone, and began emblazoning the arms as a full color landscape, so now invariably seen like this:
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Re: International Day of Forests
The link below shows the results for a Google search using the German expression "Stadtwappen mit Baum" (city COA with tree).
https://www.google.com/search?q=Stadwap ... 49&bih=582
There are, of course, a few other images with trees mixed in, but it gives a general idea of how many German cities and towns include a tree in their arms.
Regards from South Carolina, which has 13.1 million acres of forest land (68% of the state's total land area)
Kurt
https://www.google.com/search?q=Stadwap ... 49&bih=582
There are, of course, a few other images with trees mixed in, but it gives a general idea of how many German cities and towns include a tree in their arms.
Regards from South Carolina, which has 13.1 million acres of forest land (68% of the state's total land area)
Kurt
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Re: International Day of Forests
Also noteworthy
A quick search of Siebmacher at WW-Person using the term "Baum" (tree) yielded 1689 arms of some sort (family, city, guild, etc.) where a tree appears.
Regards from SC
Kurt
A quick search of Siebmacher at WW-Person using the term "Baum" (tree) yielded 1689 arms of some sort (family, city, guild, etc.) where a tree appears.
Regards from SC
Kurt
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Re: International Day of Forests
In England, there were a number of hereditary foresters which was quite a responsible position with the power to hang felons. The Booths of Dunham inherited the arms of the office from the Kingsley.
http://cheshire-heraldry.org.uk/visitations/CV4.html
If you are simply looking for arms with trees, my crest has an oak tree as part of the pun on the name.
http://cheshire-heraldry.org.uk/visitations/CV4.html
If you are simply looking for arms with trees, my crest has an oak tree as part of the pun on the name.
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Re: International Day of Forests
The English "forests" had no direct connection with swathes of trees, but were rather royal hunting preserves. Here in Sweden I have had great difficulty in explaining that the Swedish word "skog" can mean forest or woodland but may not be used for the English "New Forest", which was never the seemingly endless trees to be found here in Värmland.
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