Motto Collection (page 3)

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

Art Nouveau design, Nemo Ante Mortem Beatus
Art Nouveau design with the Latin saying: Nimitur in Vetitum (Excess is Forbidden, or We Strive for the Forbidden), a quotation from the Roman poet Ovid. Date: circa 1920s

Art Nouveau design, Mens Regit Mundum
Art Nouveau design with the Latin saying: Mens Regit Mundum (The Mind Rules the World). Date: circa 1920s

Page design, class of 1934, School Silhouettes
Page design for class of 1934 in School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA

WW2 Christmas card with farming scene of ploughing in a field, with the motto Carry On! Date: circa 1942

Suffragette Womens Freedom League China
A Womens Freedom League china saucer with banner decoration, W.F.L Votes for Women badge or shield emblem, and the motto of the organisation - Dare To Be Free

Suffragette Crested Bell Forcibly Fed
A two-sided china bell, on one side is the face of a young woman with long hair and a pearl necklace. Below is the motto, This lady shall have a vote with the crest of Southport

Greek boy scout at camp
A Greek boy scout at camp, reading a notice (possibly the boy scouts promise) printed on animal hide

Insurance companies memorial with the Latin motto: Finis Coronat Opus (the end crowns the work). The bas relief sculpture shows modern-day firefighters with water hoses and ladder, fighting a fire

Miniature - Major Sir Frederick FitzWygram, MC
Miniature portrait of Major Sir Frederick FitzWygram, M.C. 2nd Battalion Scots Guards. Born 1884, died 1920. Captured on the 17th May 1915 (Battle of Festubert) commanding F Company

Embroidered badge of the Royal Army Medical Corps. which reads In Arduis Fidelis. (Faithful in Adversity - the Regimental Motto of the Royal Army Medical Corps.). Commemorative Art

Wooden box with Ruhleben Internment Camp coat of arms
Inlaid wooden box inscribed with the Ruhleben Internment Camp coat of arms on lid, together with the Camp motto Dum spiro spero (While I breathe, I hope)

Kings Royal Rifle Corps badge on matchbox holder, WW1
Kings Royal Rifle Corps badge on a brass matchbox holder. Trench Art

WW2 poster, Be quick in your clearance of goods inwards to stores -- make lightning speed with accuracy your motto. Date: 1940s

Tatler Coat of Arms, WW1
A symbolic coat of arms for The Tatler magazine from the First World War period. Its motto, The Unique Paper, is flanked by the image of the Tatler 18th century mascot in tricorn hat

Womens Royal Air Force -- The Dawn of Aviation
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a woman looking up at three biplanes in the sky, with a sunrise behind -- The Dawn of Aviation -- with the motto below

Andreas Zeillner
ANDREAS WILHELM ZEILLNER German military commander whose motto was rien sans peine (nothing is obtained without difficulty) Date: CIRCA 1649

David Thomas
DAVID THOMAS Welsh poet who took the bardic motto The Truth against the World. Date: 1760 - 1822

Christmas Card from the 2nd Batt. Essex Regiment in Istanbul
Christmas Card from 1922 produced for soldiers of the Essex Regiment - nickname, " The Pompadours" - (motto: Montis insignia calpe ) (Badge of the Rock of Gibraltar), stationed at Istanbul

Book-plates showing Edward Heron-Allen crests
The Heron-Allen motto, Diligenter et fidelis (diligently and faithful), is found on book-plates of all his scientific volumes, housed in the Heron-Allen Library at The Natural History Musuem, London

Wolverhampton Poor Law Officers Recreation Club Badge
Wolverhampton Poor Law Officers Recreation Club enamel badge in gold and blue. It bears the Latin motto Tenebris Critur Lux - Darkness will be Light. Date: Date unknown

By industry we thrive. Progress our motto!. By industry we thrive. Progress our motto!

Russian soldiers with regimental colour, Salonika, WW1
Russian soldiers with the regimental colour at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. The banner is made of white silk, with an embroidered motto saying God is with us

Italian Caproni Ca. 5 bomber plane, WW1
The Italian Caproni Ca.5 heavy bomber plane, used during the First World War and later. It was a three-engine biplane constructed in wood and covered with fabric

Gods Provident House - Chester
Gods Provident House - Watergate Street, Chester. This building is famous for its inscription on the front reading: Gods providence is mine inheritance

Workhouse interior, Oliver Twist film, 1948
A workhouse interior from the 1948 film of Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean. A female inmate carries a baby. Behind her are workhouse " coffin beds"

England / Abinger Hammer
The blacksmith whose motto is " By me you know how fast you go" strikes the clock and indicates the historical importance of ironworking to Abinger Hammer in Surrey

Gas Workers
An allegorical representation of two bold young gasworkers, holding the tools of their trade and with the motto Ex fumo lux - " from smoke cometh light"

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

Photographers Trade Card
As the sun colours flowers so art colours life so says the motto of Thirlwell & Co artists and photographers of Stockton-on-tees, Guisborough & Spennymoor, England

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