house mark

The house marks are to visit for free in today's church.

The use of house marks dates back to long before writing was public knowledge.

The students of these houses compete against each other for house marks.

House marks can be made from one or two lines and up to quite a complex pattern of line figures.

The form of house marks is based on function.

Artists' signatures, house marks and representations of their tools can also be found.

Many house marks are placed in the shield-shaped frames.

The 1920's-style store used to house Marks Pharmacy, which closed three years ago.

Based on appearance house marks resemble line figures in rock carvings and in early writing systems.

Many heraldic shields derive from ancient house marks.

One characteristic of house marks is that they may consist of a basic form with addition or deduction of lines.

Each house has a duo of house captains that devise various competitions to achieve house marks.

In burgher arms are met sometimes also house marks which are not met in arms of nobility.

There are also house marks written by hand on documents, for instance house marks of mining workers at Røros.

The order of play follows the order of House marks on the Iron Throne Influence track.

Norwegian farmers and burghers, as well as the non-noble parts of the clergy, had since early times borne arms in addition to more commonly used house marks.

Coats of arms consist of coloured fields whilst house marks consist of simple lines only, suitable for carving on e.g. wooden utensils.

We had finished the first appearance of the evening and Garner was talking to several who wore the shoulder ribbons and house marks of lords, making arrangements for private performances.

Bumerke (plural: bumerker), rarely spelled bomerke, are house marks with some relations to coats of arms, as they were frequently used instead of arms and often displayed within an escutcheon or a shield.

The book contains 125 arms, and besides the arms of the city and towns, it also contains images of personal arms, house marks, the seals of the city of Danzig and flags.

In Scottish practice brisures function only as "temporary house marks of cadency used by children . . . without formal authority of the Lyon Office, until they establish houses of their own."

Arms of merchants in Poland and eastern Germany are often based on house marks, abstract symbols resembling runes, though they are almost never blazoned as runes, but as combinations of other heraldic charges.

Besides farmers, house marks have also been used by traders, craftsmen and other burgherss on Bryggen in Bergen, on building blocks in the Nidaros Cathedral, and on personal seals in other Norwegian cities.