I assumed these arms in August of 2022, and hope to make them official one day, through the CHA most likely, does anybody know how long the process usually takes? Blazon in comments.

Quite in bad shape

Because why have to two colonial superpowers when you can have 1 ultimate colonial superpower? Terrifying.

Since the Rampant Lion has been used across Europe for many centuries, can someone tell my which is the oldest known use of It? The oldest that I have found is from the spanish kingdom of León, around the 1125.

Any older?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_the_United_Kingdom#Blazon

The blazon describes the crown in the crest as ‘the imperial crown proper’: does ‘imperial’ here mean ‘with arches’? I’ve read that, in Mediaeval Europe, crowns with arches were called ‘imperial crowns’. I know there’s an Imperial State Crown among the Crown jewels, but there isn’t a crown called ‘Imperial Crown’.

Found it on the facade of the palais du Rhin in Strasbour, might be related to something from Imperial Germany but I’m out of ideas.

This is from a wooden chair which our church in Nevada owns. It's carved with wolf heads and griffins and has a double-headed eagle stitched into the upholstery

A non-historical historical of the arms of the family I played in Crusader Kings (subsequent to my Daily Trainwreck post yesterday). Years indicate the years of the playthrough the crests would have been used, not the lifetime of the person named.

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Hi Michaela

This is from an old and elaborately carved wooden chair which belongs to my church in Nevada. We got it as a hand-me-down from a smaller rural church. We use it as a bishop's chair. However, it has no religious symbols and I don't think that was its original use. The back of the chair has two carved griffins on top and the arms are wolf's heads. We've always thought it rather odd. Today I noticed this coat of arms - the letter A with a crown. I tried an image search but no luck. The back and seat of the chair are cross stitched with a double-headed eagle, which I thought suggested a link to Austria-Hungary? I will say that is does not look super-old (maybe 19th century) and might be machine made. I just wondered if I could figure out how it ended up in our church. It crossed my mind that it might even be war loot.

if possible please attach evidence links etc :)

Saw this on a Scientology website amongst a bunch of other framed documents, supposedly meant to represent honours heaped upon the founder of the church. Is it a corporate grant? A grant of badges perhaps? It looks strange.

Apologies, this is the resolution of the original image. I've tried reverse image searching it and can't find it anywhere else.

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I saw a coin witch I guess is German. It has a latin inscription that refers to a duke of Br. and Luneburg. And a COA for which I found a matching shield from Braunschweig-Luneburg.
But when I look further I find this shield on a catalan page with a relative : Joan Frederic de Brunsvic-Lüneburg (en alemany Johann Friedrich von Braunschweig-Calenberg)
On the lettering I find on numista the issuer would be Duke Christian Louis (Christian Ludwig) (1648-1665)

Which one would be correct ?