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BLAZONING OF THE SCHMIDT COAT OF ARMS
BLAZON (Wappen der Familie Schmidt):
ARMS (Shield):
Azure a lion rampant or, holding a hammer bendways of the second
CREST (Helmet):
On a torse of the colors a lion issuant as in the arms
MANTLE (Decken):
Not deScribed (Mantling is seldom deScribed unless other than the Primary Tinctures
are to be used)
MOTTO:
None recorded (It is rare for the German Achievement to deScribe a motto)
REFERENCE SOURCE:
Armorial General by J.B. Rietstap
ARMS (Shield) INTERPRETATION:
Azure - (Means the Shield is Blue (Azure = Blue))
A Lion Rampant Or - (Means, in profile, a rampaging (Rampant) male
(unless otherwise deScribed) Lion standing on one hind leg and colored golden (Or = Gold) is placed
upon the Shield)
holding a hammer bendways of the second - (Means the Lion is holding a hammer
in a diagonal attitude/orientation (Bendways) and it takes the color of the second color mentioned (Or))
CREST (Helmet) INTERPRETATION:
On a Torse of the colors - (Means the next thing deScribed will go upon a
cloth wreath (Torse) of 6 twists, alternating between the primary tinctures)
A Lion Issuant as in the Arms - (Means a Lion "comes out" as if from behind the
Helmet (Issuant) and is otherwise like the Lion on the Shield (as in the Arms) and is affixed by the Torse (together
with the Mantling to the Helmet, which is drawn in Profile with its Visor Closed, or with no Visor nor Grilles - the
kind used by a "Bürgerliche" (Esquire/Commoner/Citizen))
SYMBOLISM:
Hammer - (Honor; emblem of the smith's trade)
Lion - (Courage)
Colors:
Azure (Blue) - (Loyalty and truth)
Or (Gold) - (Generosity)
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