Heraldry and heralds

Appleton Studios

David B. Appleton studies, researches, teaches, and writes about heraldry, and through his blog, he shares his heraldic knowledge with us, as well as through publications and presentations.

David B. Appleton is open to questions from his readers and provides advice on heraldic topics in which he specializes.

His blog is Blog.AppletonStudios.com and his website is AppletonStudios.com, from which he offers his services related to the world of heraldry, its dissemination, and knowledge.

Since 2009, David B. Appleton's heraldic blog has been an endless source of knowledge, images, ideas, curiosities, original reflections, and links to heraldic sites selected by him.

Heraldry: Musing on an esoteric topic

David B. Appleton stands out for his continuous analysis of all types of heraldic manifestations, which he finds everywhere, in the world we live in: from those we have inherited from ancient times to the fiercely current, from books to cinema, from fashionable clothing to urban furniture, from east to west and north to south, including those that appear in logos and emblems, those using traditional techniques and those created or disseminated through new technologies, on ships, sports cars, and airplanes, on porcelain, facades, and stained glass, on television, on t-shirts and coins, in auctions and universities, in comics and sports, etc. with a systematic publication rhythm, more than 2 posts per week, nothing heraldic escapes the record and genuine analysis of David B. Appleton on Blog.AppletonStudios.com, which I highly recommend.

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Categories: Link, Interpreted, Personal, Coat of arms, Without divisions, Freehand, Soft metal, Illuminated, Outlined in sable, Canting, Heraldry and heralds, Argent, Azure, Gules, Vert, Chevronel, Between, Apple, Slipped and Leaved.

External resources:

• Interpretation of his coat of arms.
• Interpretation by Xavier García at Appleton Studios.
• Interpretation by Xavier García at Dibujo Heráldico with his blazon in English and Spanish.

Root: Appleton, David B..

Canting arms, apple ~ appleton.

Argent, two Chevronels Azure between three Apples Gules, slipped and leaved Vert.

Escudo de plata, dos tenazas de azur acompañadas de tres manzanas de gules, talladas y hojadas de sinople.

Coat of arms interpreted by me with: a round-bottomed shield shape; the field in flat tincture metal Argent; the figures outlined in Sable and illuminated in Azure, Gules, and Vert; and all with a rough finish.

A summary of the heraldic blog of David B. Appleton can be found among my recommended links on the heraldic universe.

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Blazon keywords: Without divisions, Argent, Azure, Gules, Vert, Chevronel, Between, Apple, Slipped and Leaved.

Style keywords: Rough, Illuminated and Outlined in sable.

Classification: Interpreted, Personal, Coat of arms, Canting and Heraldry and heralds.

Bearer: Appleton, David B..

The collaborative blog Heraldica Nova was founded in 2013 by Torsten Hiltmann as part of the Dilthey Project «The Performance of Coats of Arms», funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation through their initiative «Focus on the Humanities».

Based at the University of Münster, the blog aims to study heraldry from the perspective of cultural history.

Starting point

By the late Middle Ages, coats of arms were everywhere: carved in stone or wood, depicted on textiles or stained glass, and displayed in both public and private spaces.

Coats of arms, which began as arbitrary symbols adopted by knights in the 12th century, evolved into a complex and powerful system of symbolic representation used by men and women from various social classes, as well as by states, kingdoms, regions, institutions, groups, and more, transcending their initial role as mere symbols of identity.

An underused resource

Despite their historical significance, the creators of this blog argue that academic history and historians have not fully utilized the rich potential of heraldic sources to provide insights into families, lineages, relationships, identities, authorities, and hierarchies, nor to explore modes of symbolic and visual representation and communication. This lack of exploration applies to historical periods from the Middle Ages onwards.

Objectives of the blog

Therefore, the primary goal of Heraldica Nova is to highlight the potential of heraldic sources for modern historical science and encourage their use. To achieve this, the blog serves as:

• A platform for sharing and discussing ideas, hypotheses, and observations among historians and heraldists, each contributing their respective perspectives.
• A resource hub, providing links, databases, information, images, tools, and more. For example, within this area, their list of digitized armorials is particularly noteworthy, including highlights such as: [Urfe; Century XV], [Ingeram, H.; 1459], and the roll of arms of [Edward IV of England; 1461].

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Categories: Link and Heraldry and heralds.

External resources:

• Julia Ziegler, Dear heraldists: How did you learn to blazon?.
• Dear Mr. Salmerón.

Internet addresses:

• Heralds International.
• Heralds International, Facebook group
• Professional Heraldry, Facebook group

I was honored with their announce of my incorporation to Heralds International, the announce was the following:

• «Dr. Antonio Salmeron has recently joined Heralds International as a Member Artist and so we thought we would feature some of his work. A longer article will follow later but Dr. Salmeron has described his work thus»:
• «My style as a heraldic artist is clear, symbolic and methodical. Clear because my work searches pieces which transmit energy and vital force to the owner, I think that a coat of arms should be a source of light and joy and an expression of freedom. Symbolic because coats of arms must be a representation of its bearer, his/her ideals, motivations, history and anything he/she might want to display. Methodical because heraldic art is founded on a science, the so called science of heraldry».
• «We look forward to featuring more of his work very soon».

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Categories: Link and Heraldry and heralds.