Victorian crests
 

Single page cut from a Victorian album dated 1879.
Crests remain clean and bright.
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Another fascinating group of crests - thanks for sharing these again.

A friend of mine had a book with all sorts of cut-out information, signatures, quotes and so on including many Victorian military crests including several Indian Army ones but unfortunately I could not get her to part with it!

Roger

Thanks, very nice to see.

Thank you for posting your sheets with crests. They are very nice.

Crest collectors could buy sheets with crests from the publishers of the crest & monogram albums.

Do you know if these crests were copies of the actual crests or have they been designed by the publishers?

I do have a scrapbook made by someone working for a hotel in Evian (French Alps). It has many crests cut from actual letters but also crests supplied by crest book publishers.

Very artistic and a good illustration of the Victorian art of crest design, and the ability to arrange the crest together in a pleasing manner.
Mike

Outstanding.
Andy

Very interesting, thank you for posting. It seems a pity there is no publication showing all the regimental crests.

I have 4 or 5 crest albums, you could buy them as sheets, but they were also collected from the regimental letter heads, I think the hobby started with people making rubbings of the badges, then collecting the crests from letter heads, once it became popular sheets of crests were printed.

Attached a few pages from an interesting album I have, consisting of a mix of sketches, rubbings and printed crests.

Thank you Ron and stenoyab for posting. Excellent pics and very interesting. Jeff

Here are mine, in order of appearance in the French hotel album.

and the final one. All are presumed genuine, i.e. taken from envelopes.

Thank you everyone for posting. It seems a pity no one has published a full record.

A few cavalry items.
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Some magnificent crests have been posted, I am impressed. Here is my Scottish collection, some pages are grouped together for ease of scanning.
I cannot account for the the missing bits on some pages, this is how they came to me when I purchased them some years ago.
Enjoy!
Phil.

Uncut page of crests by W.S.Lincoln.
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