A couple of weeks back I purchased three interesting arts & crafts frames.
They had neat old pictures from Venice, Italy, but I really just wanted the frames…so I set about taking the pictures out..which involved pulling old rusty nails from the back that had been there for maybe 80 years?…
When I got the pictures out I found these painted boards which were used to hold the photos in place!
and the last one which is the most complete and has a date – 1902.
So now I am so interested!! Where are these from? They’re all different views of the same crest. ‘l’union fait la force’ (strength through unity) is the motto for Belgium and the lion is like a Belgian lion…but its wearing a little crest of its own which I can’t place. Also, the right side of the crest has a LOT of different things on it… what does it mean? so fun trying to figure this out 
any ideas?
Leopold II’s wife, Marie Henriette of Austria, dies in 1902. The Belgian crest at that time was different. (The left crest). The right crest would have been Marie’s. She was from Austria-Hungary and her uncle was the last “Holy Roman Emperor”. http://www.ngw.nl/int/oos/ooshong/ooshong.htm and Wikipedia should get you started.
Regards
Comment by neukenkeuken — October 15, 2010 @ 3:50 am |
Thank you for the reply and all of this info. learning about crests has been fascinating and the link to the crest site you provided is JUST what I was looking for. Will post if I strike gold with any of this
G
Comment by beantime — October 15, 2010 @ 4:19 pm |