I know there have been discussions, apparently in other fora, about what the tinctures should be, but until now I’d never run across primary evidence.
This is the coat of arms painted on a punch bowl commissioned by De Witt Clinton in 1812, during his third term as mayor, as a gift to the city. I found the photo in a brochure on Chinese export porcelain published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
http://www.americanheraldry.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1445&stc=1&d=1453911144
This makes me feel just unbearably smug, since I’ve always argued that, absent evidence to the contrary, the absence of Pietrasancta hatching on any of the engravings implied proper charges on an argent field. Whether that was right or not, you’ve got to think Mayor Clinton knew what the arms of his city looked like.
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Coat_of_Arms_Philippine_Islands_(1905–1936).svg/300px-Coat_of_Arms_Philippine_Islands_(1905–1936).svg.png
In 1935 the Insular Government was replaced with the Commonwealth of the Philippines and the Arms was altered somewhat to reflect the new Status. These Arms was used until full Independence in 1946, well in exile during the Japanese Occupation 1942-1945.
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The tower was built by a former seaman, Lemuel Moody and he used the observatory to create incredibly accurate charts/maps of the surrounding area. On one such map dated 1825 was the below coat of arms.
http://www.americanheraldry.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1432&stc=1&d=1436650564
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My personal favorite of these is the Polk set. The craziest has to be the Hayes set. As far as use of US arms goes, the GW Bush set seems odd looking
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]]>Above is an excellent example of the good use of heraldry in the U.S. Government, where so often bad heraldic design persists despite the best efforts of the U.S. Army’s Institute of Heraldry.
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