Waiting sign

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1 Thaler, Georg Ludwig 1709 as elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and bearer of archbanners, awaiting the office of treasurer (Welter 2138) Obv .: coat of arms of Braunschweig-Lüneburg with electoral hat and waiting sign 1 Thaler, Georg Ludwig 1709 as elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and bearer of archbanners, awaiting the office of treasurer (Welter 2138) Obv .: coat of arms of Braunschweig-Lüneburg with electoral hat and waiting sign
1 Thaler, Georg Ludwig 1709 as elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and bearer of archbanners , awaiting the office of arch treasurer ( Welter 2138)
Obv .: coat of arms of Braunschweig-Lüneburg with electoral hat and waiting sign

When waiting sign in will Heraldry an empty plate or a blank field in the arms referred. The field or the sign can be displayed in white at most, but preferably in a neutral background color. It was and is sense to have a place on the coat of arms for an event that changes the coat of arms in advance. Reasons were, for example, special fiefdoms to be expected , assumptions of office (treasurer degrees), elections or nobility. If an expected change of the coat of arms occurred, the upper coat of arms was occasionally extended with a helmet and corresponding ornament.

To speak of a single sign or field when referring to the waiting sign , as was often the case in the past, is not heraldically correct. The single shield has no heraldic figures , but is fixed with tinging , while everything on the waiting shield is empty.

literature

  • Wolfgang Menzel: Literature sheet number 67. Paul Reff, Stuttgart 1862, p. 265
  • Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry. Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1984, p. 438

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