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'''DELAWARE''' | '''DELAWARE''' | ||
[[File:delaware.gif|center]] | [[File:delaware.gif|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
===Origin/meaning=== | |||
The official blazon of the Delaware coat of arms was enacted by the state legislature in 1847: "Party per fess, or and argent, the first charged with a garb (wheat sheaf) in bend dexter and an ear of maize (Indian Corn) in bend sinister, both proper; the second charged with an ox statant, ruminating, proper; fess, wavy azure, supporters on the dexter a husbandman with a hilling hoe, on the sinister a rifleman armed and accoutred at ease. Crest, on a wreath azure and argent, a ship under full sail, proper." The motto is "Liberty and independence." | The official blazon of the Delaware coat of arms was enacted by the state legislature in 1847: "Party per fess, or and argent, the first charged with a garb (wheat sheaf) in bend dexter and an ear of maize (Indian Corn) in bend sinister, both proper; the second charged with an ox statant, ruminating, proper; fess, wavy azure, supporters on the dexter a husbandman with a hilling hoe, on the sinister a rifleman armed and accoutred at ease. Crest, on a wreath azure and argent, a ship under full sail, proper." The motto is "Liberty and independence." | ||
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The seal from 1907:<br> | The seal from 1907:<br> | ||
[[File:delaware.jpg|center]] | [[File:delaware.jpg|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
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|align="center"|[[File:de.cs.jpg|center|300 px|Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms in a [[:Category:Chase and Sanborn (images)|1902 booklet]] | |||
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{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
'''[[Literature]]''': The Institute of Heraldry, U.S. Army, Records Department, File 840-10, Heraldic Item, Flag: Delaware; National Geographic January 1946 article on US seals; Eugene Zieber, Heraldry in America (1895); seal from http://www.heraldryclipart.com | |||
[[Literature]] : The Institute of Heraldry, U.S. Army, Records Department, File 840-10, Heraldic Item, Flag: Delaware; National Geographic January 1946 article on US seals; Eugene Zieber, Heraldry in America (1895); seal from http://www.heraldryclipart.com | |||
[[Category:US States]] | [[Category:US States]] | ||
[[Category:Delaware]] | [[Category:Delaware]] | ||