Moving on, let's look at some of the things you can do with your coat of arms in your home office. Some of these will no doubt seem fairly obvious, but there will also be others that you may not have thought of before now.
First off, let's do a kind of overview, a desk top panorama as it were, of some of the ways that heraldry can be used there.
First we have this little desk set. How many different items do you notice here with the owner's coat of arms? (Please click on the image above, as well as the one below, to go to the full-sized photo to see all of these items in greater detail.)
Looking at this desk set and going from left to right:
While the glass inkwell could have a coat of arms etched onto it, this one does not. (But it could!)
The pen and pencil holder (which might also be just a drinking cup, but let's be real, it has a quill pen and a pencil in it) has a coat of on it.
The bookmark in the book is topped with a coat of arms.
The letter opener next to the book, and then, of course, the paperweight.
And finally, the picture frame with a coat of arms at the top.
This second photo, from Blasoni Nobiliari, an Italian firm which makes many of these and whom you can find on Facebook, has even more armorial items on the table top, though not necessarily strictly limited to the home office.
We have, again, trying to stay from left to right:
a business card holder; a seal matrix; an embossing seal; an embossed business card in an armorial card/placeholder; a small plate; two small paintings of the coat of arms; a paperweight; a shoehorn; a signet ring; a pin plate; a bookmark; a rubber stamp of the coat of arms; a letter opener; a ceramic box; and finally, two glasses with the coat of arm etched onto them.
And to finish up today's post, here are some more seal rings, seal matrices, and the seals they produce, just to give you an idea of some of the many choices that are available at a range of different prices out there.
Next time, some more armorial ideas for the home office!
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