This is one of a number of fabulous antique crests, armorial bearings, embossed heraldic arms and monograms from the Edward Law collection. I have bought over 50 albums now from this gentleman's collection, and some album's are just FULL with a lifetimes work of cutting off letterheads and the backs of envelopes and business cards to be painstakingly glued into these albums for you all to see now. Ideal for the collector today as quite a number of them have the Surnames or the various Royal families then down the peerage to Earls - Lords - Ladies - Viscounts - Dukes families they belonged to written below. As well as Societies, Masonic Lodges, Military Regiments, Boating Clubs and all manner of other obscure interesting things. They are fascinating to look through by anyone actually. There are a number of foreign albums too which may be of interest to the collector as well.
Great for the LIVERY button collector as well as many of these are similar to the buttons found with simply the Livery Crest and or the Latin Motto.
Most albums I have photographed every page so you can see what there is.
I have added 79 large photos to the bottom of this listing so please take the time to view them all carefully.
This little album is FULL.
The spine of the album has the words Rest Album on it but the title page inside reads:
Album for Crests, Monograms, Coats of Arms, Ornamental Dies, Etc.
Published by Ernest Nister, London.
Please see photographs provided for more details and visual confirmation of condition for yourself (as mentioned, I have added 79 large photos to the bottom of this listing).
There are some signs of age and use wear, mostly on the spine and album corners and edges. Some of the pages are becoming loose inside at the spine.
The album measures approx. 6 and 3/8 inches x 5 and 1/2 inches. Luckily for me, the collector has hand numbered the pages up to 64 in the top corners.