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[[File: | [[File:Worshipful Company of Horners full.png|center|Arms of {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
===Official blazon=== | ===Official blazon=== | ||
Argent on a | Argent on a Chevron, between three Leather Bottles the two in chief having their interior ends manifest all Sable a like number of Buglehorns stringed also Argent. And for the Crest upon a Helm with a Wreath Argent and Sable Issuant from a Circlet its upper edge invected of five cusps Argent charged with a representation of the Polyethylene Molecule Sable a Ram guardant Argent armed and unguled Sable supporting between its forelegs a representation of the Benzene ring also Sable enfiling the base of a Narwhal tusk all Argent ~ the upper end resting on the dexter shoulder of the same. | ||
===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
Arms granted 1992. | |||
The leather-bottles refers to the incorporation of the Bottlemakers company into the Horners Company in 1476. The new crest refers to the Company's new interests in plastics. | |||
{|align="center" | {|align="center" | ||
|align="center"|[[File:Horners.wco.jpg|350 px|center]] <br/>The arms on a [[Wills's - Arms of Companies|Wills's cigarette card]], 1913 | |align="center"|[[File:Horners.wco.jpg|350 px|center]] <br/>The arms on a [[Wills's - Arms of Companies|Wills's cigarette card]], 1913 | ||
|align="center"|[[File:lon-horners.jpg|center]] <br/> | |||
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{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Literature]] : Bromley and Child, 1960 | [[Literature]] : Bromley and Child, 1960 <br> | ||
Title image and blazon from [http://www.geocities.ws/aidan00/2004.html here]. | |||
[[Category:London Guilds]] | [[Category:London Guilds]] | ||
[[Category:Institutional heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | [[Category:Institutional heraldry of the United Kingdom]] |