Symbols

Modern · documented field

Flash Classics£0.99

Lucky Seven Dagger

Seven brings the language of luck and games of chance; the dagger adds risk and resolve. Their combination is modern rather than inherited sailor code, making this flash emblem a reminder that fortune is uncertain and courage still matters when the outcome cannot be controlled.

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CommercialLuckHopeResilienceHistorically supported

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Service Badge£0.99

Maple Leaf General Service Badge — Canadian Expeditionary Force Context, 1914–1918

Maple leaves appeared across varied Canadian Expeditionary Force cap and collar badges, usually combined with unit titles, crowns, numerals or other devices.

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CommercialIdentityHistorically supported

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Masonic Symbols£0.99

Masonic Beehive

A beehive or skep used in some Masonic traditions as an emblem of industry, organised labour, and collective effort.

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CommercialIdentityHistorically supported

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Masonic Tools£0.99

Masonic Trowel

An operative mason’s tool adapted in some Masonic traditions as an emblem of fellowship and the bonds uniting lodge members.

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CommercialLoveIdentityHistorically supported

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Gothic & Memento Mori£0.99

Moth and Flame Sign

A moth moving toward flame holds transformation and danger in the same image, capturing the pull of change, the cost of desire, and the fragility of a life drawn toward intensity.

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CommercialDeathTransformationRenewalHistorically supported

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Flash Classics£0.99

Mourning Blade

A blade can mark danger or survival; placed in a memorial context, its hard edge becomes a way to give grief visible form. Mourning Blade is a modern emblem for memory carried forward, honouring what has been lost without pretending mourning follows one symbolic rule.

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CommercialMemoryDeathFaithHistorically supported

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Gothic & Memento Mori£0.99

Obelisk Shadow Sign

An obelisk stands solid while its shadow stretches beyond it, turning a durable cemetery monument into a reflection on absence, memory, legacy, and the traces a life leaves behind.

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CommercialDeathMemoryIdentityHistorically supported

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Folk Figural£0.99

Paired Birds and Plant Motif — Eastern Slavic Folk Embroidery

Two birds arranged around a tree or flowering plant on Eastern Slavic embroidered towels.

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CommercialOriginal Meaning UnknownHistorically supported

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Flash Classics£0.99

Panther Blade Emblem

The crawling or striking panther became an icon of mid-century American old-school tattooing. Paired here with a blade, its physical force becomes an emblem of fierce protection, courage and the refusal to retreat when threatened.

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CommercialProtectionStrengthResilienceHistorically supported

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Folk Figural£0.99

Peacock or Confronted Bird Motif — South and East Slavic Folk Art

A symmetrical pair of ornamental birds, sometimes identified as peacocks, in Balkan and Eastern European folk design.

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CommercialOriginal Meaning UnknownHistorically supported

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Occult & Esoteric£0.99

Polaris Needle Crest

Star and needle meet in a crest of orientation, pairing Polaris with compass imagery to express steadiness, resilience, and the discipline of finding a reliable bearing.

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CommercialGuidanceResilienceHopeHistorically supported

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Gothic & Memento Mori£0.99

Poppy Time Seal

A remembrance poppy set against a measure of time links individual loss with the years that follow, asking how memory is carried after those who witnessed an event are gone.

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CommercialDeathMemoryRenewalHistorically supported

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Pythian Symbols£0.99

Pythian Falcon

A falcon used in Knights of Pythias insignia as an emblem of vigilance, documented particularly on ceremonial swords.

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CommercialIdentityProtectionHistorically supported

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Pythian Symbols£0.99

Pythian Myrtle Sprig

A myrtle sprig used by the Knights of Pythias as an emblem of enduring friendship and fraternal remembrance.

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CommercialLoveMemoryIdentityHistorically supported

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Botanical & Thornwork£0.99

Red Poppy

In nineteenth-century floral language the red poppy symbolised consolation, while its now-familiar association with remembrance belongs primarily to the twentieth-century aftermath of the First World War.

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CommercialMemoryPeaceHistorically supported

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Gothic & Memento Mori£0.99

Renewal Moth Mark

The moth's real metamorphosis gives this mark a natural foundation for change: an earlier form is left behind, making renewal inseparable from vulnerability, transition, and the loss of what came before.

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CommercialTransformationRenewalDeathHistorically supported

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Nautical & Maritime£0.99

Rope Frame

Rope is useful because fibres and strands work together under load; wrapped into a frame, that practical maritime material becomes a fitting symbol of connection, continuity, resilience, and boundaries that hold.

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CommercialResilienceStrengthFamilyHistorically supported

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Flash Classics£0.99

Rose Banner Blade

Rose, blade and banner are all familiar parts of classic tattoo flash, but the words placed between them made each piece personal. This modern composition keeps that openness, pairing beauty with hardship and leaving space for the name, memory or promise that gives the emblem its real weight.

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CommercialFaithLoveMemoryHistorically supported

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Rosicrucian Symbols£0.99

Rose Cross

A rose joined to a cross, associated with Rosicrucian names, writings, organisations, and later initiatory traditions.

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CommercialRenewalFaithWisdomHistorically supported

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Nautical & Maritime£0.99

Rose Tablet

Placed within a tablet-like frame, the rose feels less like decoration and more like a dedication: a familiar tattoo and memorial flower for love, devotion, beauty, remembrance, hope, and the memories we choose to preserve.

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CommercialFaithLoveMemoryHistorically supported

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Scottish Rite Symbols£0.99

Rosicrucian Pelican and Rose Cross

A pelican feeding her young combined with the rose and cross in Masonic Rose Croix imagery, particularly the Scottish Rite eighteenth degree.

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CommercialCompassionFaithRenewalHistorically supported

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Flash Classics£0.99

Sacred Heart Dagger

The Sacred Heart carries centuries of Christian devotion centred on divine love and suffering; the dagger belongs to a later flash vocabulary. Their modern combination makes devotion feel costly and physical: love held through pain rather than protected from it.

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CommercialFaithLoveResilienceHistorically supported

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Secret Society Emblems£0.99

Scroll and Key Emblem

The scroll-and-key device used to identify Yale’s Scroll and Key senior society, founded in 1841.

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IdentityHistorically supported

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Flash Classics£0.99

Serpent Dagger Crest

Snake and dagger imagery appears directly in American wartime flash, but its meaning was never limited to one rule. Here the serpent's living curve against the rigid blade suggests danger negotiated through adaptability, awareness and change.

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CommercialRenewalTransformationWisdomHistorically supported