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Early Modern · documented field

Square and Compasses preview
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Square and Compasses

Freemasonry’s best-known combined emblem, pairing two builders’ tools used in lodge teaching as moral symbols.

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Swallowtail Butterfly Crest (Ageha-no-chō-mon / Ise Taira Seki) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Swallowtail Butterfly Crest (Ageha-no-chō-mon / Ise Taira Seki) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A displayed swallowtail butterfly with indented hindwings, named from Kenmon’s Ise Taira Seki ageha plate.

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Tachibana Citrus Crest (Yakushiji Tachibana-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Tachibana Citrus Crest (Yakushiji Tachibana-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A plant-type mark of the tachibana citrus: facing blossom with flanking leaves, fruit present only if the named cut includes it.

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Three-Scale Crest (Mitsu-Uroko-mon / Hōjō 1272 Flag Type) — Documented Kamon Motif, Kamakura–Edo preview
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Three-Scale Crest (Mitsu-Uroko-mon / Hōjō 1272 Flag Type) — Documented Kamon Motif, Kamakura–Edo

Three triangular charges conventionally called scales (uroko), specified as the Hōjō tokusō mark on the Bun’ei 9 (1272) kasho-senki ship-flag.

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Triple Hexagon Crest (Mitsu-mori Kikkō-mon / Fukayabe) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Triple Hexagon Crest (Mitsu-mori Kikkō-mon / Fukayabe) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

Three piled hexagonal plates (mitsu-mori kikkō), the Kenmon type for Nikaidō Fukayabe.

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Two-Bar Crest (Futatsu-Hikiryō-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Two-Bar Crest (Futatsu-Hikiryō-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

Two parallel bars (futatsu-hikiryō), with bar count defining the type.

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Two-Leaf Asarum Crest (Futaba-Aoi-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Two-Leaf Asarum Crest (Futaba-Aoi-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A plant-type mark of two heart-shaped leaves of Asarum caulescens (futaba-aoi), not garden hollyhock.

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Early Modern · documented field

Upright Arrowhead-Plant Crest (Tachi-Omodaka-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Upright Arrowhead-Plant Crest (Tachi-Omodaka-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A plant-type mark of Sagittaria trifolia: three-pointed arrowhead leaves on an upright (tachi) plant, not an embracing daki pair and not a water ground.

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Washer Crest (Kuginuki-mon / Square-Pierced-Round) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Washer Crest (Kuginuki-mon / Square-Pierced-Round) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A square plate pierced by a round hole (座金 / washer), not a pictorial carpenter’s bar.

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Woodsorrel Trefoil Crest (Katabami-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Woodsorrel Trefoil Crest (Katabami-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A plant-type mark of three notched Oxalis leaflets (katabami / 酢漿草), the notch distinguishing them from smooth Asarum aoi hearts.

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Early Modern · documented field

Alembic Mark preview
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Alembic Mark

A contemporary mark inspired by the alembic, the distillation head used to guide vapour into a receiver and a fitting symbol for refinement, knowledge and transformation.

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Early Modern · documented field

Alexander Thurston Merchant Mark preview
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Alexander Thurston Merchant Mark

Personal merchant mark of Norwich grocer and mercer Alexander Thurston.

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Early Modern · documented field

Antwerp Compasses Goldsmith Mark preview
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Antwerp Compasses Goldsmith Mark

Pair-of-compasses maker punch documented on mid-sixteenth-century Antwerp silver.

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Early Modern · documented field

Antwerp Hand and Three Ears Goldsmith Mark preview
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Antwerp Hand and Three Ears Goldsmith Mark

Unidentified Antwerp goldsmith’s punch showing a hand grasping three ears of corn.

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Antwerp Interlaced VV and Crescent Goldsmith Mark preview
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Antwerp Interlaced VV and Crescent Goldsmith Mark

Unidentified Antwerp goldsmith’s punch of interlaced Vs with a small crescent.

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Early Modern · documented field

Ash Flower Sign preview
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Ash Flower Sign

Flower and ash occupy opposite ends of the same image: one still holds form, the other has returned to residue, creating a quiet meditation on beauty, loss, memory, and renewal.

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Early Modern · documented field

Athanor Crest preview
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Athanor Crest

A contemporary crest inspired by the athanor, the slow-burning furnace used to sustain long periods of heat in alchemical work and associated here with endurance, discipline and transformation.

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Early Modern · documented field

Azoth Compass preview
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Azoth Compass

A contemporary compass-like emblem inspired by azoth, an elusive alchemical term associated in Paracelsian reception with a life-animating or universal medicinal substance.

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Early Modern · documented field

Bell Mark preview
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Bell Mark

At sea, a bell could mark the watch, sound an alarm, signal through fog, or accompany ceremony. This mark turns that practical voice of the ship into a symbol of attention, timing, vigilance, warning, and readiness to respond.

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Early Modern · documented field

Black Sun Plate preview
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Black Sun Plate

A modern plate inspired by the black sun in Splendor Solis, where the image belongs to a stage of putrefaction and darkening rather than a universal symbol of solar vitality.

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Early Modern · documented field

Blazing Star preview
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Blazing Star

A radiant star used in Masonic lodge imagery and ritual, with meanings that vary between jurisdictions, rites, and degrees.

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Early Modern · documented field

Bone Circle Mark preview
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Bone Circle Mark

Bones arranged into a closed circle turn the body's remains into a stark image of equality and return: status falls away, memory persists, and every life meets the same physical limit.

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Early Modern · documented field

Broken Clock Mark preview
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Broken Clock Mark

A damaged clock turns the steady measurement of time into interruption, making the mark especially resonant with endings that arrive before plans, relationships, or ambitions feel complete.

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Early Modern · documented field

Calcination Wheel preview
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Calcination Wheel

A modern process wheel inspired by calcination, the alchemical operation of heating and reducing material, interpreted here through themes of trial, purification, resilience and renewal.

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