Need help with this unfinished badge.

[danio]

Hi All,

This is an unfinished badge.

Could anyone tell me what it is? Is it from British?

Size smaller than a zippo.

Thanks.

[Tony]

I don't know what it is but it looks like a poor quality version the British coat of arms, shouldn't the lion be wearing a crown?

Check out your local court house, they usually still have the British coat of arms up on an outside wall.

[Mervyn Mitton]

Danio - I would suspect that in this small size that it was intended as a coat button - perhaps for a staff uniform.

The Latin motto - FAMAM EXTENDERE FACTIS - means, TO EXTEND FAME BY DEEDS.

This motto was used by the All Hallows School - near Lyme Regis in Dorset. Also, by Viscount Galway (Monkton-Arundel) ;

Viscount Monkton and the Lords Monkton.

However, in 1767 the famous Swedish Botanist - Carolus Linnaeus ( 1707- 1778) - who created the system of naming

plants and animals by genus and species which is still used today - was ennobled by the Swedish King.

He used the same Motto and with the different lion this could be for him. Perhaps he had linke in Britain ?

I hope this will be of some help ? Monkton is a famous British Family and active in politics until recently. Mervyn

[GRA]

Hello all!

While I do not know what it is, I know what it is not! - It's not the Coat of Arms of Carl von Linné, see below. The motto is, as Mervyn say, the same though.

/Jonas

[Mervyn Mitton]

Jonas - that helps a lot. I wonder if he had an estate in Britain and adopted a British coat of arms. My book of Latin

Mottoes shows only the ones I listed. I was also a little puzzled by the item - it can't be a die for striking the badge -

the lettering would be in reverse. Perhaps a pre-made example to show the purchaser before ordering ? Also, the

Lion with his parted hair is very strange. I hope other members will give us their thoughts. Mervyn