Family coat of arms?

Question

I found a coat of arms but it's all rusted. We want to paint it, but don't know the colors. It's a lion standing on two feet (nothing else on him). He is not holding anything. On top there is a crown. Then all around there are just decorational curves. Could you please tell me what the colors are, find me a website that talks about it, or tell me the name of it. I think it is from europe and it might be a family coat of arms. Please give me any info on it.

Answer 1

If you're sure it wont harm the value of the item, you can paint it any tincture color ( blue, red, green, black, berry, tawny, blood red or purple). You must not paint the background and the lion as metals (gold and silver) one must be a tincture and the other a metal. Gold or silver must not touch gold or silver but any other tincture color can touch gold or silver and any other tincture.

Example: the McDonald coat-of-arms is a lion rampant (standing) it is a blue background or shield with the lion colored silver. The lion's crown is red as are it's claws and tongue.

Azure(blue) a lion rampant(standing) argent(silver) crowned or ducally (a duke's crown has some rounded tips) gorged gules(red). Any mantling would be blue lined in silver or vice versa.

If the lion were looking backward (reguardant) it would be colored black on gold. If the lion is not on a shield you can color it any colors you like. You can use any deep shades of color but not pastel.

Answer 2

For those people whom might be looking for your answers, I recommend scanning a picture of it, and providing a link to said image.  This would help in better identifying your crest.

Answer 3

I have a feeling what you have is one that was the arms of the country someone came from or it was definitely a coat of arms granted to an ancestor.  Since you don't know, I know it isn't one of those dinky little walnut plaques with a coat of arms on it and a surname over, under or on it.  Coats of arms do not have names on, over or under them.      



                                   Coat of arms is the correct term.  A crest is only part of a coat of arms.  The only way it would be just a crest is if it broke off the helmet of the coat of arms.  

Perhaps you should contact the College of Arms in England, maybe send them a picture and see if they can identify it.  Other websites are these scam merchants, sometimes called bucket shops, that want to sell you something.  Even if it is not English, they probably have the experitse to be able to identify it for you.

Here is a link to their website. They are the most authoritative source with whom you can deal.  Actually coats of arms were not granted to families.  They were granted to individuals.  

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/

Edit: You can use the link below to send an inquiry to the College of Arms.

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Enquir...

There are some persons who resent us warning people about the peddlers of surname products or bucket shops that sell coats of arms based on a surname only, which is not valid.  I don't know if they are in the pocket of one of those merchants or if they have one of those plaques with a coat of arms mounted on it and don't want it known that what they have is only one that was granted to someone with their surname and probably isn't even related.