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[[File:{{PAGENAME}}.jpg|center|300 px|Seal (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | [[File:{{PAGENAME}}.jpg|center|300 px|Seal (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
===Blazon=== | |||
Azure a fess or between a plow in chief and a ship under full sail in base proper.<br> | |||
Crest: A right arm, nude, embowed, couped at the shoulder holding a pair of scales.<br> | |||
Supporters: Dexter, a female figure standing full face, habited white and purple, crowned with an olive wreath, and in her right hand an open scroll charged with an anchor; sinister, a similar female figure, habited white and blue, in her left hand a cornucopia.<br> | |||
Motto: Philadelphia maneto | |||
===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
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In the eighteenth century Philadelphia used the arms below: | |||
[[File:{{PAGENAME}}1.jpg|center|300 px|Seal (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | |||
The tinctures are uncertain and the hatching used in documents may merely have been shading. On a print of 1762 the lines show the fields as follows: (1) azure, (2) vert, (3) argent and (4) gules. | |||
The ship was carried over into the new coat of arms and the device of the scales in the old arms became the crest in the new ones. | |||
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[[Literature]] : | [[Literature]] : Chapin, 1935 | ||
[[Category:US cities and towns]] | [[Category:US cities and towns]] | ||
[[Category:Pennsylvania]] | [[Category:Pennsylvania]] | ||