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New Heraldic Creations And My Fourteen-Point Ethical Code, Walter Angst
New Heraldic Creations And My Fourteen-Point Ethical Code, Walter Angst
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Most of my contemporaries have many misconceptions about all things heraldic. Most people - if they even know what we are talking about - consider heraldic designs disdainfully as pretentious, superfluous, even silly, or at best arcane frills having to do with royalty. They are wrong. Armorial bearings are an expression of such things as sovereignty, of individuality, of beauty, of sagas, history, past glories and civic achievements. Just fancy our villages and resort places back-home: how poor would they be if they could not display their panoply of colorful community flags fluttering in the alpine breeze. Even here in …
Samples Of Walter Angst's Heraldic Creations *
Samples Of Walter Angst's Heraldic Creations *
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
* These illustrations are inadequate black and white reproductions of some of the splendidly colored pictures that appeared in the Smithsonian 4 (July 1973): 22, 23, 24.