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Unidentified Stamp

Unidentified Stamp
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Crest A dexter arm vested embowed holding an axe in bend
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There are 54 crests in Fairbairn's Crests that describe an arm embowed holding a battleaxe. However, 44 of them represent an arm in armour and may be discounted. Of the remaining 10 only 4 are without armour and are simply vested, and one of these match our stamp. They are: Browning; Cooper; Mactier; and Norton.
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Unidentified Stamp

Unidentified Stamp
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Arms Quarterly 1 & 4 argent three crescents 2. On a fess cotised two roundels [fountains] 3. A bend engrailed sable in sinister chief an escallop Crest An arm in armour embowed holding a sword Helmet of an esquire Motto quantum in rebus inane
Possibilities for Identification: 
Fairbairn’s Crests: Odell, Herbert Francis Edward, of Carriglea, co Waterford (A dexter arm in armour embowed the hand grasping a sword, the blade passing through a chaplet of red roses and trefoils). Motto: Quantum in rebus inane. The motto is taken from Aulus Persius Flaccus.
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Gilman (Stamp 1)

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Arms A leg couped at mid-thigh embowed Crest An arm in armour embowed with a ribbon tied around the wrist holding an arrow [pheon]
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Unidentified Stamp

Unidentified Stamp
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Crest A cubit arm in armour with a serpent wound round it holding a spear in fess
Possibilities for Identification: 
Neither stamp nor motto are in Fairbairn’s Crests, Burke’s General armory, nor Papworth.
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Unidentified Stamp

Unidentified Stamp
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Arms Sable on a chevron argent between in chief two griffins heads couped and in base a lion rampant an anchor between two estoiles (unidentified) impaling Sable a greyhound courant between two bars argent (unidentified) Crest A cubit arm in armour with a serpent wound round it holding a spear in fess Motto VALET PRUDENTIA VIRTUS
Possibilities for Identification: 
Neither stamp nor motto are in Fairbairn’s Crests, Burke’s General armory, nor Papworth.
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Unidentified Stamp

Unidentified Stamp
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Crest A cubit arm vested holding a flag charged with 3 bends in the centre a leopard’s face
Possibilities for Identification: 
The arms on the banner may be Allard; see Papworth: Argent 3 bends gules on a canton azure a leopard's head or.
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Unidentified Stamp

Unidentified Stamp
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Crest An arm embowed vested and cuffed holding a branch of laurel Motto ME DUCE
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Burke’s General armory gives Webb, of Gillingham, Kent; Joan Corder, A dictionary of Suffolk crests provides Thomas Webb, of Gillingham in Kent. ME DUCE was the motto of George Innes, writer in Edinburgh in 1733, but his crest was a star of twelve points argent.
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Denis, Peter (1713 - 1778) (Stamp 1)

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Initial D Crest An arm in armour embowed holding a serpent Motto BY MY ANCESTORS MERIT
Possibilities for Identification: 
Not in Fairbairn’s Crests. Clements identifies the stamp as belonging to the Denis family. Burke’s General armory: Peter Denis – a hand grasping a snake, but not an arm in armour embowed
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Wood, Henry (Stamp 1)

Wood, Henry (Stamp 1)
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Crest An arm embowed holding a spear broken in three pieces one in pale two in saltire Monogram H W
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Worcester College Oxford (Stamp 1)

Worcester College Oxford (Stamp 1)
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Arms Two chevrons between six martlets, three two and one the hand of Ulster in chief point (Sir Thomas Cookes Bart) Crest Out of a mural crown an arm in armour embowed holding a short sword in bend Helmet of a Baronet Legends COLL VIGORN ; LEGES ET STATUTA COLLEGII
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