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Old 05-05-17, 11:37 AM
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Default Victorian crests

Single page cut from a Victorian album dated 1879.
Crests remain clean and bright.
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Old 05-05-17, 11:40 AM
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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!

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Old 05-05-17, 12:38 PM
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Thanks, very nice to see.
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Old 05-05-17, 03:07 PM
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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.
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Old 05-05-17, 03:45 PM
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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.
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Outstanding.
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Very interesting, thank you for posting. It seems a pity there is no publication showing all the regimental crests.
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Old 07-05-17, 01:32 PM
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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.
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Old 07-05-17, 02:02 PM
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Thank you Ron and stenoyab for posting. Excellent pics and very interesting. Jeff
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Old 07-05-17, 03:35 PM
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Here are mine, in order of appearance in the French hotel album.
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Old 07-05-17, 03:36 PM
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and the final one. All are presumed genuine, i.e. taken from envelopes.
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Old 07-05-17, 06:50 PM
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Thank you everyone for posting. It seems a pity no one has published a full record.
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Old 08-05-17, 09:06 AM
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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.
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Old 08-05-17, 02:39 PM
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Uncut page of crests by W.S.Lincoln.
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