Sugar Refiners of Philadelphia, 1788

 
Joseph McMillan
 
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27 December 2008 11:17
 

In the thread about Liberty caps and swastikas, I mentioned that the Liberty cap "was also the central motif in the arms of the Sugar Refiners of Philadelphia, carried on their flag in the Grand Federal Procession of 1788."

Here is my emblazonment of these arms:

http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeohzt4/guilds-color/Phila-Sugar-Color.png

 

The blazon as given by Francis Hopkinson, master of ceremonies for the procession:  Or, on a staff, erect in pale, proper, a cap of liberty, azure, turned up ermine; placed between two sugar loaves in fess, covered with blue paper:  on a chief of the third, thirteen stars argent.

 
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28 December 2008 12:44
 

Very nice. With a blazon like this, I presume it’s up to the artist on how the stars are arranged. But why six pointed stars?

 
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28 December 2008 14:35
 

I chose six-pointed stars because this seems to have been how artists in the place and time tended to emblazon "stars."  See Francis Hopkinson’s own design for the US national arms:

http://americanheraldry.org/pages/uploads/Official/Hopkinson.jpg

Also the first die of the great seal:

http://www.greatseal.com/committees/1782Die.jpg

 
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30 December 2008 16:01
 

OK, I see. Makes sense. So if the blazon calls for "stars" there’s no specific default? And if the blazon calls for "mullets" it’s stars of five points?

 
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30 December 2008 17:51
 

The term mullet is derived from the French molete, which refers to the rowel of a spur rather than a star.  The Founding Fathers would have perhaps used the term stars to spite this English tradition, as other European countries refer to the charge specifically as a star rather than the peculiar name given in France and England.

There is no specific number of points for mullets, and a norm is usually dependent upon nation and time period.  Five or six are most commonly found, though this is tradition only.

 
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