In the course of reviewing governors’ websites the other day for work, I couldn’t help but notice the Connecticut governor’s use of a seal with a blue shield on it. I thought the Connecticut flag had its seal on it and knew that most of the states that do that do so on a blue flag, which didn’t track with a blue shield, so I checked it out. I suppose this might be as close to differencing to show a relationship that we get in official US heraldry.
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Kenneth Mansfield;89958 wrote:
In the course of reviewing governors’ websites the other day for work, I couldn’t help but notice the Connecticut governor’s use of a seal with a blue shield on it. I thought the Connecticut flag had its seal on it and knew that most of the states that do that do so on a blue flag, which didn’t track with a blue shield, so I checked it out. I suppose this might be as close to differencing to show a relationship that we get in official US heraldry.
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I wouldn’t make too much of it absent a legal document describing the colors of the governor’s seal. A seal, properly so-called, has no colors—it’s just an impression on wax or paper, or the instrument for making that impression. It could be that someone who just didn’t know any better did the color version, and that the seal of the governor is merely the arms of the state with the inscription on the surrounding ring.
And shame, shame on you for describing what’s on the state flag as a "seal." It’s not the seal—it’s the arms of the state. This is the seal:
