GOLDSMITHS' TRADE CORPORATION (Edinburgh).

GOLDSMITHS' TRADE CORPORATION (Edinburgh). Qrly. i and 4 a leopard's face argent, 2 and 3 azure, a covered cup or, in chief two annulets of the last, enriched with stones gules.

[Not matriculated in Lyon Register. Refer sub Edinburgh.] This is evidently a variation upon the London Goldsmiths' Company. Their arms are based upon the London Hall-mark, and that upon the Royal leopards, hence the leopard's face for Edinburgh is rather ridiculous. But the copying of other people's arms leads to these little follies.

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