The International Association of Amateur Heralds

An unusual design : the arms of the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers (in London), granted by the College of Arms in 1956 :



Arms : Tierced in pairle Azure, Or and Argent, ten cubes conjoined in perspective 4, 3 ,2 and 1, the tops also Or, the dexter and sinister sides Sable and Azure respectively.

Crest : On a wreath of the colours, an antique bronze bust of Minerva proper, the eyes Argent.

Supporters : On the dexter side a figure representing Michael Faraday habited in a festal gown of a Doctor of Civil Law of the University of Oxford and holding in the exterior hand a representation of his coil proper, and on the sinister side a figure representing Sir Isaac Newton habited in a gown of a Master of Arts of the University of Cambridge and holding in the exterior hand his telescope also proper.

Motto : Sine nobis scientia languet. [Science languishes without us]

Interesting design!!

Well, at least they didn't blazon it as "Per pale or and argent a pile dancetty azure charged with four bars fusily fesswise or, the interstices paly fusily bendwise sable...." oh to hell with it!