#Heraldecember 2025, day 7 prompt - Cinnamon

"Cinnamon-mon!"

Depicted in Coffee Hag album style.
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#Heraldecember 2025, day 6 prompt - Fate

“Fate tied a red string between us, which is cute, until I trip over it in public.”

Depicted in Coffee Hag album style.
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#Heraldecember 2025, day 4 prompt - Passing

“Arsenal’s newest signing, Triskelion wearing number four, is absolutely dancing through the defense, they can’t lay a finger on him!”

Depicted in Coffee Hag album style.
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#Heraldecember 2025, day 5 prompt - Journey

“A salmon’s journey upstream: going out with a splash.”

Depicted in Coffee Hag album style.
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#Heraldecember 2025, day 3 prompt - Cavalry

"Sir, their cavalry are charging our infantry!"
"Very well, Captain, sound a... countercharge."

Depicted in Coffee Hag album style.
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#Heraldecember 2025, day 2 prompt - Feast
Depicted below: an average Czech on St. Martin's day. Poor goose...
Depicted in Coffee Hag album style.
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#Heraldecember 2025, day 1 prompt - Counterfeit
Can't say if I'll have time, energy or inspiration to do all of the prompts (knowing myself, that's a no), but here's a little something. "Bezants voided" are sometimes refered to as "false roundels". #heraldecember2025

🧵 The fourth entry in my trilobite series comes from the municipality of Skryje. The first written mention of the village dates to 1229. Like many small Czech settlements, it changed hands repeatedly over the centuries, being traded, bought, sold, divided, reunited, and governed by various minor...

🧵 The third municipality in my trilobite series is Málkov in Central Bohemia. A small community of around ninety inhabitants, Málkov is a typical Bohemian agricultural village. Depending on the source, it dates back either to the eleventh or the fourteenth century.

🧵 The second arms and flag in my trilobite series belong to the municipality of Čelechovice na Hané. The name itself suggests its location in the fertile ethno-geographical region of Hanakia (Haná), sometimes referred to as the breadbasket of Czechia.

Lately I have been looking into unusual charges in Czech municipal heraldry and ended up finding five coats of arms in the country that feature a trilobite. Naturally I had to emblazon all of them.

This one is the first, belonging to the town of Jince. (1/6)

I spotted the flag of Český Brod while visiting the town earlier this week. It’s an interesting way of turning the coat of arms into a flag. The original arms follow a common Central European pattern with a city gate and inescutcheons containing the imperial eagle and the Bohemian lion. (1/3)

I had the opportunity to visit another one of "my" towns. This time, it was Bernartice, whose #coatofarms and #flag I designed earlier this year. This small town holds a surprising story. The prominent feature in its coat of arms, an unfinished bridge, (1/6) #heraldry #vexillology

Another visit to Lipnice nad Sázavou for a meeting of the Subcommittee for Heraldry and Vexillology. The town's flag is an excellent way to simplify the historical arms without resorting to a banner of arms. Those are unfortunately overused, and with the overwhelming... (1/2)