Motto Collection

Her Majestys Australian Ship (HMAS) Melbourne (21) shown with its complement of Douglas A-4G Skyhawks of 805 Squadron RAN ranged for entering port

Wartime poster of Churchills famous words: Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few, referring to the pilots of the Royal Air Force, fighting the Battle of Britain

The Central Powers of WWI
With United Forces (the motto of Emperor Franz Josef I) - patriotic depiction of the Central Powers of WWI - Germany, Turkey and Austro-Hungary

Coat of Arms for Marylebone, London, with Virgin and Child at the top, and a Latin motto below (Fiat Secundum Verbum Tuum, let it be done according to your word). Date: early 20th century

Trades union membership certificate
A trades union membership certificate for the United Operative Plumbers Association of Great Britain and Ireland, with Defence and Defiance as their motto

Prince Wales Feathers
The Prince of Waless feathers, with the motto Ich Dien (I serve)

Design and motto of the Royal Artillery -- Ubique
Design and motto of the Royal Artillery, showing a crown, ornate initials RA in mirror image, a field gun, and the Latin word Ubique, meaning Everywhere

John Milton Vertue
JOHN MILTON English poet and puritan at the age of 21, with the motto: " Poets are born, not made"

The Royal Coat of Arms of King George V. Arms: Quarterly, first and fourth, gules three lions passant guardant in pale or, (England); second or, a lion rampant within a tressure flory counter-flory

No. 2 (Battle) War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire
Staff and patients in Ward A13 at the No. 2 War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire - the First World War deployment of Battle School, Cranbury Road, Reading

Christmas scene at the Evelina Childrens Hospital
Christmas comes but once a year -- a scene at the Evelina Childrens Hospital, founded in Southwark, London, in 1869. A sick little girl is visited by her mother and younger sister

Paris, France - College Royal or College de France. Date: circa 1789

Wilson, NC, USA - Oettingers The Dependable Store
Wilson, North Carolina, USA - Oettingers - The Dependable Store. The leading store of the town with the slogan: " It pays to Deal at Oettinger s"

RMS Moldavia - P&O Line - in harbour at Dover. Date: circa 1910s

Music cover with Scottish harpist
An unidentified music cover depicting a female Scottish harpist wearing a tartan shawl and medieval costume. The emblem at the top contains the Latin words, Nemo Me Impune Lacessit

Unicorn & Reptiles
A unicorn, with assorted reptiles, and a Latin motto: " Not with might, but with virtue"

Coats of Arms for Colleges of Oxford University. Date: circa 1910

A Welcome magic lantern slide, Victorian period

Ex Libris Bookplate, Joan Silvester Horne, woman reading a book with a tennis racket under her arm

Sydney Grammar School
An etching of Sydney Grammar School, established in 1857, with work done by architect, James Barnet. The motto of the Sydney university feeder school is Laus Deo, Latin for Praise be to God

Doorway, Sydney University
This etching shows an ornate arched doorway to the University of Sydney, established in 1850, their motto is sidere mens eadem mutato, translated as The stars change, the mind remains the same

Advertisement for Lifebuoy Soap, from Lever Brothers Ltd, Port Sunlight. Showing two crew men in a lifeboat. With the motto Saves Life'

A Scottish Highlander Piper plays Auld Lang Syne whilst strolling through the thistles and the heather... Date: circa 1942

Art Nouveau design, Nemo Ante Mortem Beatus
Art Nouveau design with the Latin proverb: Nemo Ante Mortem Beatus (No-one can be called happy before death). Date: circa 1920s

Insurance companies memorial with the Latin motto: Non Omnis Moriar (not all will die). The sculpture shows firefighters on a horse-drawn fire engine, rushing to fight a fire. (2 of 3)

FRYING FOOD 1960S
A young housewife fries food in a frying pan. But remember the old motto the more you fry the sooner you die'! Date: 1960s

Bad Luck Crest designed by fighter pilot, WW2
Bad Luck Crest, a form of modern heraldry designed by a fighter pilot who escaped from Dunkirk during WW2 Date: 1941

Comic postcard, Woman with bicycle on country lane Date: 20th century

Kiwanis Model of the Menin Gate - Menin Gate Ramparts
The model is remarkably life-like and is Dedicated to the Relatives of the Soldiers who stood here from 1914-1918. Kiwanis International is an international service club founded in 1915 in Detroit

Motto frontispiece in a bound volume of The British Workman, an improving magazine aimed at the industrial classes, advocating temperance and education. Laborare est Orare - To Work is to Worship

Supplement front cover, The Seven Ages by Louis Wain - Shakespeares Seven Ages of Man, reapplied to cats! Design in the form of a coat of arms, with the Latin motto: Cave Canem (Beware of the Dog)

Showcard, Kendal Brown Snuff, by Gawith, Hoggarth & Co, showing two Georgian gentlemen playing chess

Plate with coat of arms from Clermont-Ferrand, France, 18th century. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l Auteur

Water jug from Rouen, decorated with a vignette of a horse with saddle and the motto, nous Sommes deux, borders of foliage in red and blue

Plates with coats of arms from Rouen, France. Hand-finished chromolithograph by Ris Paquot from his General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l Auteur, Paris, 1874

Pharmacy pitcher and vase from Naples, Italy. The pharmacy pitcher decorated with SP 1689 within a heraldic shield, and motto above A. CDIGARD. STELLAT

Bookplate, William Ridley Richardson
The armorial bookplate of William Ridley Richardson (1856-?) of Ravensfell and Bromley House, Bromley, Kent. Date: late 19th century

Design, Aberdeen, Its Trades & Industries. 1905

Scottish tartan -- Sutherland Clan (comprising the Cheyne, Federith, Gray, Keith, Mowat and Oliphant families), with butchers broom badge, coat of arms

Scottish tartan -- Sinclair Clan, with furze badge, coat of arms, motto (Commit Thy Work to God), and curling scene. Date: circa 1908

Envelope design, New York Empire City Rose
Envelope design, New York Empire City views in the form of a Rose. 1857

Drummers of the King of Buntuku, Gold Coast, West Africa
Drummers of the King of Buntuku, Gold Coast (then part of the British Empire), West Africa. Each chief had his own drum call or motto. 1922

Loose page from a scrapbook of crests and heraldry
Loose page from a former scrapbook of crests and heraldry featuring family crests, coats of arms and many devices, shields, monograms and mottos! Date: late 19th century

Doorway with Order of the Garter motto above - Windsor
Doorway with the French maxim used as the motto of the British chivalric Order of the Garter above - Windsor, Berkshire. Date: circa 1980s

Motto - for Office use - Keep your books well balanced. An accountant does his best to do just this in front of his Junior staff, unaware that the boss is arriving...! Date: 1907

The Standard of England - Girl Guides Association. Date: circa 1940s

Polish-American poster, united in the fight, WW1
A Polish-American poster during the First World War, with the Polish and American flags, and portraits of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson

Skull and crossbones military button
A small skull and crossbones military button, probably from the uniform of the 17th/21st Lancers, a British cavalry regiment formed in 1922. Their motto was Death Or Glory. Date: circa 1930s

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping