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Crest A demi-lion holding in its dexter palm a dagger Monogram J P (or G J P?)
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Possible candidates from Fairbairn's Crests, plate 10/2 are: Packington; Parry; Peace; Pearmain; Pears; Pepper; Percivall; Picken; Pigg; Pomeroy; Powell; Praed; Priddle; Primrose; Prouse. Papworth provides one further candidate: Pulham
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Monogram J M Crest A garb
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Fairbairn's Crests, plate 153 /2 provides the following possible surnames: M’Lawes; Maltby of Maltby; Masterson, of Ferns Castle, Wexford; Merefield, of London; Michael; Miln; Milnes; Mitchell; Modyford
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Intitials I D Crest A lion rampant
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Davenport identifies these stamps as those of Marcus Trevor 1st Viscount Dungannon. Both arms and crest belonged to the Welsh hero Tudor Trevor, and are used by his descendants. Because surnames are a recent introduction in Wales, various branches of the family have different surnames. Papworth's Ordinary lists a good number, among them Davies of London and Shropshire, Davis of Denbighshire and Dymock of Warwickshire, granted in 1581 and Dymock of Penley Hall in Flintshire. The initials I D would fit any of these families. That of the Viscounts Dungannon do not offer anyone whose name began with I or J.
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Unidentified Stamp
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Arms Per bend ermine and ermines a lion rampant crowned
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Davenport identifies these stamps as those of Marcus Trevor 1st Viscount Dungannon. Both arms and crest belonged to the Welsh hero Tudor Trevor, and are used by his descendants. Because surnames are a recent introduction in Wales, various branches of the family have different surnames. For the lion rampant Papworth's Ordinary lists a good number, of possibilities, among them Davies of London and Shropshire, Davis of Denbighshire and Dymock of Warwickshire, granted in 1581, and Dymock of Penley Hall in Flintshire. For the wyvern crest Papworth gives the following: Drake, Ashe and Withercomb, Devon; Drake, Hardley, Norfolk; Davith. The initials I D would fit any of these families. That of the Viscounts Dungannon do not offer anyone whose name began with I or J.
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Crest A wyvern Initials I D
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Davenport identifies these stamps as those of Marcus Trevor 1st Viscount Dungannon. Both arms and crest belonged to the Welsh hero Tudor Trevor, and are used by his descendants. Because surnames are a recent introduction in Wales, various branches of the family have different surnames. For the lion rampant Papworth's Ordinary lists a good number, of possibilities, among them Davies of London and Shropshire, Davis of Denbighshire and Dymock of Warwickshire, granted in 1581, and Dymock of Penley Hall in Flintshire. For the wyvern crest Papworth gives the following: Drake, Ashe and Withercomb, Devon; Drake, Hardley, Norfolk; Davith. The initials I D would fit any of these families. That of the Viscounts Dungannon do not offer anyone whose name began with I or J.
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Monogram I V B
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Perhaps the monogram of I.V. Brograve, (or J.V. Brograve) whose name appears in Hazlitt's Roll of Honour.
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Initials J A
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Note in pencil in Folger 152-539q identifies owner as Jane Allington. It seems possible from the bookplate of James Everard Arundell, 9th Baron Arundell of Wardour (1717-56) that this stamp belonged to a member of the Arundell family. From the date of the books it is unlikely that it was the 9th Baron himself. He was the eldest son of James Everard Arundell (d. 1803), 3rd son of Henry 6th Baron Arundell of Wardour (1694-1646), and Anne daughter of John Wyndham of The Close, Salisbury and of Norrington in Wiltshire.
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Monogram J S On an escutcheon the hand of Ulster
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Probably not the stamp of Sir John Soane, who was not a baronet of Nova Scotia.
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Monogram M A or M
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Monogram M B
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Monogram M L Coronet of an Earl Countess
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The monogram M L points to an Earl or a Countess with a title that begins in L. There were a number of Countesses in 1897 that fitted that description: Mildred Countess of Lichfield; Millicent Countess of Lindsey, whose husband also had the Christian name Montagu; Mary Countess of Longford. Ernestine Mary Countess of Listowel, and Alice Mary Countess of Loudon are also possible.
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Initials M L Coronet of a Viscount
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This is not Henry Yelverton Viscount Longueville or his wife, nor is it Lowther Viscount Lonsdale or his wife. The stamp is made up of separate pieces. Lumley?
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Monogram M P
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Possibly a Continental stamp.
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Monogram R B
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Monogram R L(?)
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Monogram S D
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Monogram S G Coronet of an Earl
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Possibly the stamp of John Carteret 2nd Earl Granville (1st creation) (1690-1763), or Granville Leveson-Gower, Viscount Granville, subsequently 1st Earl Granville (2nd creation) (1773-1846) A further possibility is John Carteret’s second wife, Sophia Fermor whom he married in 1744, but this is unlikely as she was countess for only one year before her death during childbirth in 1745. The child was also named Sophia (1745-1771) who became Countess Shelburne on her marriage to William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne in 1765.
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Monogram S I L D S
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The surname Silds does exist, but impossible to determine whether this is the correct reading of the monogram.
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Monogram S I L D S
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The surname Silds does exist, but impossible to determine whether this is the correct reading of the monogram.
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Monogram S O H N E (?) Coronet of a Baron

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