Help With Vintage Coat of Arms Buttons?

[etruscan]

Also this one:
Fax mentis incendium gloriae – the flame of (or passion for) glory is the torch of the mind

[Dragoneer_88]

This is an interesting mystery. Lol. I’ll post a better picture later tonight. Maybe somebody here is fluent in Latin. 😛

[etruscan]

Got it (I think)
“[the motto] properly belongs to the family of Hastings-Forbes, Earls of Granard. The Earldom was created in 1675, so presumably the motto was adopted about this time. Debrett translates it as “The incitement to glory is the firebrand of the mind”.

Compare the coat of arms in this listing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Forbes,_8th_Earl_of_Granard

[Dragoneer_88]

Got it (I think)
“[the motto] properly belongs to the family of Hastings-Forbes, Earls of Granard. The Earldom was created in 1675, so presumably the motto was adopted about this time. Debrett translates it as “The incitement to glory is the firebrand of the mind”.

Compare the coat of arms in this listing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Forbes,_8th_Earl_of_Granard

Wow! That looks really close! Those don’t look like dragon heads on the shield. Thanks, Etruscan. 🙂 Now I’m wondering if these buttons are mass produced or just made for that family. I guess there’s no way to know for sure.

[Dragoneer_88]

More pics. Good luck reading. It’s the best I could do with an iPhone camera.

[etruscan]

If I am reading the references properly, the three heads on the shield are bears wearing muzzles. I have no idea why, though. :p

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