Antique Motto

This gorgeous 18k yellow gold signet ring features an armorial with the motto Tien Ta Foy… "Steadfast Faith" With generous size, scale, and heft, the bold town and country look is un...

19th Century handcrafted Woolie featuring sailboat bordered by British flags with the motto of the British monarch Dieu et Mon Droit, (God and my right.) encircled in an olive branch...

Hallmarked in London in 1842 by John Figg, this extraordinary pair of Victorian, antique sterling silver Sauce Tureens, feature scroll borders, ornate handles and feet, and engraved ...

Antique late-19th Century large bronze framed mirror with a cast monogramed crest entwining the initials R C I of the Royal Insurance Company above the motto “Tutum Te Sistam” meanin...

Engraved on the lid are the crest and coat of arms of most likely of the Jervis-White family with the motto "Venale Nec Auro" or "Not to be Bribed with Gold."

Both riders and their horses are lavishly outfitted in heraldic trappings, each piece carefully painted with distinctive patterns, vivid blocks of color, and emblems that hint at nob...

These symbols likely correspond to specific noble families, heraldic lineages, or personal mottos, turning the joust into a spectacle of social prestige as well as martial skill.

The tray features flat chased interior and exterior floral , scroll decoration to the body with a shaped shell and gadroon border, and an engraved crest and motto to the centre. The ...

The arms are supported by camels (carriers of the silks from the East), the motto is Unity Makes Strength. The ermine lined robes & tent signify royal patronage & the lamp atop wool.

Below the lapis lazuli blazons is a black enamel motto which reads “Tout ou Rien” (All or Nothing).

This impressive Georgian silver samovar retains the original plain domed hallmarked push fit cover embellished with a contemporary engraved crest of a dexter hand issuing out of a cl...

A ‘Black Forest’ linden wood long case clock by Spring of Interlaken, the square silvered dial enclosed behind a glazed door within an ornate case, surmounted by a carving of William...

Today, the Company exists primarily as a charitable institution, supporting a variety of causes. The company's motto is Honor Deo, Latin for "Honour to God”. The origin of the "Merc...

While its status as national motto was for many years unofficial, E pluribus unum was still considered the de facto motto of the United States from its early history.

Decorated with a spread-winged federal eagle, carrying a billowing streamer with the familiar Latin motto “E Pluribus Unum” (out of many, one), the text on the lid reads “Manufacture...

The cartouche to the anterior surface is embellished with a contemporary bright cut engraved crest of an antelope's head couped, charged on the neck with four mullets in cross, and h...

This is a rare posy, not featured in Dame Joan Evans' book 'English Posies and Posy Rings', 1931, which remains the fullest catalogue of posy mottos ever recorded. Accompanied by do...

The pottery, also known as Rockingham or Motto Ware, was produced from the 1870’s by William Mason, a South Derbyshire potter.

Interestingly the latter clock also featured on the pendulum temperature gauge the Latin inscription Elementa Suis Propriis Armis Victa, (which can loosely be translated as ‘The elem...

"Catton's English Peerage" a copper engraved, hand colored heraldic coat of arms drawn by Charles Catton and engraved by Francis Chesham. The motto "Francha, Leale Toge" is an ancie...

The coat of arms, crest and motto, are that of Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet and Brother of William Gladstone, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.    

Breaking with the Art Nouveau aesthetic, their motto was to perfectly combine aesthetics and functionality.

In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, a rich tapestry panel woven with symbolic emblems, mottoes, or coats of arms called a baldachin, canopy of state or cloth of state was hung behind...

Each basket also has a polished fireback emblazoned with the Beecham coat of arms, including the family motto "Nil Sine Labore" meaning "Nothing without labour".

The centre of the Salver is engraved with a contemporary shield shaped Armorial, with Crest and Motto "Sine Tremore" above, all engraved in the Scottish manner.

The front of the cover is engraved with a contemporary Armorial with Motto below and Crest above, all surrounded by a cartouche of drapery mantling.

The movement has the crest of the Sandoz family with the motto in Latin Sine Dolo meaning Without Guile.

19th Century Funerary Hatchment for Sir Henry Oglander, 7th Baronet of Nunwell Azure ground shows, a stork between three cross-croslets fitchee or, with Red Hand of Ulster canton of...

., England Circa 1906 The front engraved with an armorial crest of a handsome, seated lion and the motto Facta Non Verba on a long ornate scroll, Latin for Deeds Not Words or Actions...

This large footed salver by John Carter is finely executed in sterling, and engraved this motto "In Deo Confido". Carter has a specialist candlestick and salver marker, many of his w...

Each border is engraved with the Armorial, Coronet, Supporters and Motto "Semper Paratus" which were as used by Hugh Edward Henry Clifford, 5th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1756-1793...

The back cover is engraved with the familly crest of the Bland family with the motto in Latin Potior Origine Virtus translated in English to Virtue is more Important in Origine..

The coat of arms appears to belong to a member of the L'Estrange (or Le Strange) family, most likely that of Hamon Le Strange (né Styleman Le Strange) of Norfolk, and the motto reads...

An English double leather bucket from the early 20th century, with royal motto and coat of arms. Boasting a lovely shade of green, this double leather bucket is adorned on the front ...

It will be useful to recall that the purpose of these compositions in the Flemish tradition was to habitually call to mind one or more cues derived from moralizing proverbs and motto...

A simply glorious piece, this chair has the best carving in the top I have ever seen bare none, it is literally my life motto since reading it which is as follows "To Rest Is Our Rew...

One is especially remarkable,with a man in a small boat at high seas with a small cloud on the horizon, with von Arenstorff family motto carved above in French : " la providence l'or...

English monumental polished steel carving set with inlaid eagle bone handles depicting E. pluribus unum motto. Stamped with Hallmarks in Silver S.H. Samuel Harwood, Early 19th century.

A museum quality George IV English Sterling Silver Covered Soup Tureen on Stand by Paul Storr, London, Circa 1823 Lid engraved with 'Lion Rampant' herald; also repeated to the should...

Called faïence parlante or faïence patriotique, dishes and bowls painted with images or mottos of the French Revolution (1789-99) reflected the political allegiances of those who dis...

"Disce Pati" in Latin meaning "Learn to Suffer" is the motto and title of the Duncan Clan featuring a a ship under sail.

"Just"--"Prompt"--"Certain", in prominent gold letters on a circular aqua background displays their motto; while gold, white, and aqua lettering on a light brownish background comple...

Plantin adopted a printer's mark which would appear in various forms on the title pages of all Plantin Press books. The motto Labore et Constantia ("By Labor and Constancy") surround...

They may be blazoned as follows: Arms: Quarterly 1st and 4th Azure crusily of cross crosslets a cross moline voided or (for Knollys) 2nd and 3rd Gules on a chevron argent three ro...

The fronts of all six handles bearing engraved family crests & motto 'FIDELITER’ ('Upright & Faithful'), the reverse of all six featuring robust shell-shaped heels, with four...

Below the crest is the motto "Retinens vestigia famae" meaning: "Still treading the footsteps of an honourable ancestry".

Stamped with the eagle’s head for 18 karat gold and French manufacture, and an unknown maker’s mark. The motto that goes with this coat of arms is "fluctuat nec mergitur" which tran...

Thirty six large stars are scattered on the flags and the motto "E. Pluribus Unum" is embroidered on a fluttering ribbon.

They all featured his coat of arms surmounted by a baron’s coronet within a garter and motto, Palman Qui Meruit Ferat, beneath a naval coronet, displayed on a trophy representing nav...

The back is engraved with a contemporary Scottish olive branch Crest with the Motto "In Bello Quines - repose in War" above. The Crest is that of the Murray family of Lintrose, Pert...

Called faïence parlante or faïence patriotique, dishes and bowls painted with images or mottos of the French Revolution (1789-1799) reflected the political allegiances of those who d...

The Kennedy clan motto 'Avise la Fin' ('Consider the end') also features.

The double serpentine form top made of various specimen marbles and inlaid with the armorial for the Baker family of County Tipperary, with motto "Hono Virtutis Satelles" s...

On the center of the hood base, on the lintel, is written the motto of the Merlan family "IL N'EST QU'ADRESSE - DE GRAND BIEN MÉRITE" (“There is only ability – of great merit”).

He is seated on a green painted bench and works at what is, perhaps, a tilted architect’s table, supplied with paper, quill and inkpot, ruler, pencil, and name card, busily occupied ...

Used in a popular 1913 book about the life of fishermen by Johann Wilhelm Kinau (Gorch Fock; 1880-1916), the phrase Seefahrt ist Not was used as a Nazi propaganda motto and is based ...

Sentimental jewellery and jewels with messages, such as 'Forget Me Not', 'Spes' or 'Souvenir', were hugely popular during the Victoria era. These mottos would recall a Grand Tour or ...

We also recognize in this watercolor the insignia of the Order of the Star of India with its motto "Heaven's Light Our Guide" - this was the basis of the flag of the Indian Empire.

The interesting thing about the use of the accompanying motto is that it doesn’t seem to have been popular in the 19th century.

The intaglio's engraving shows a swallow with a letter in it's mouth and the french motto 'reponse' (answer, response). The swallow symbolizes renewal, rejuvenation, hope, movement, ...