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Engraving · documented field

Panther Blade Emblem preview
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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.

3 variants9 filesPDFPNGSVG
CommercialProtectionStrengthResilienceHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Papyrus Crown Mark preview
Occult & Esoteric£0.99

Papyrus Crown Mark

A contemporary crown-like emblem inspired by Egyptian papyrus imagery, a recurring plant form in art and writing that could also serve as an emblem of Lower Egypt.

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CommercialIdentityWisdomRenewalHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Pegasus Star Crest preview
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Pegasus Star Crest

Pegasos carries Bellerophon into an encounter that would otherwise be unreachable. The added star is modern, but together horse, wings and celestial point create an emblem of aspiration, guidance and the courage to rise toward a difficult goal.

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CommercialGuidanceHopeStrengthModern association

Engraving · documented field

Pelican in Her Piety preview
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Pelican in Her Piety

Medieval bestiaries told of a pelican piercing her own breast to revive her young with blood, turning the bird into a powerful Christian image of sacrifice, love and redemption.

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CommercialCompassionLoveFaithHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Pelican Vessel Crest preview
Occult & Esoteric£0.99

Pelican Vessel Crest

A contemporary crest inspired by the historical pelican vessel, whose recirculating arms returned condensate to the body and suggest renewal, continuity and transformation.

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CommercialRenewalTransformationWisdomHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Peony preview
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Peony

Peony carried surprisingly uneasy meanings in nineteenth-century floriography: period dictionaries record anger, shame and bashfulness rather than the modern prosperity-focused symbolism often encountered today.

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CommercialHumilityHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Perthro preview
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Perthro

Perthro resists a tidy definition. Its later Old English name is obscure and competing explanations remain unresolved, making mystery itself more historically honest than certainty; chance, fate, luck, and hidden outcomes belong mainly to modern interpretation.

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CommercialLuckHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Phallic Pendant preview
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Phallic Pendant

A deliberately provocative Roman amulet that used phallic and genital imagery to repel the evil eye.

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CommercialProtectionLuckHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Philosopher Star preview
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Philosopher Star

A contemporary star inspired by alchemical cosmology and philosopher’s-stone imagery, representing guidance, hope, wisdom and transformation without claiming a single historical form.

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CommercialWisdomHopeTransformationHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Phoenix Ash Device preview
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Phoenix Ash Device

Ash places the emphasis after the fire rather than during it. Drawing on later phoenix traditions of death and renewed life, this device becomes an emblem of loss endured, what remains, and the possibility of beginning again.

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CommercialRenewalStrengthTransformationHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Pictish Beast preview
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Pictish Beast

With its long snout, curved body and unmistakably unfamiliar anatomy, the Pictish Beast is one of the most enigmatic creatures carved on Pictish stones. Its identity—and what it meant to the people who carved it—remains unknown.

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CommercialStrengthResilienceIdentityHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Pilgrim Ampulla preview
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Pilgrim Ampulla

Small lead-alloy ampullae let medieval pilgrims carry water, oil or other shrine-associated substances home, turning a sacred journey into something tangible that could be kept and remembered.

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CommercialFaithMemoryHealingHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Pilgrim Bell preview
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Pilgrim Bell

Small bells survive among the material traces of medieval pilgrimage, including examples linked with Thomas Becket's shrine at Canterbury, where they served as portable reminders of a sacred journey and place.

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CommercialFaithIdentityMemoryHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Pilgrim Staff and Scrip preview
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Pilgrim Staff and Scrip

The staff and scrip were practical companions of the medieval pilgrim and became instantly recognisable attributes of pilgrimage, evoking the road, endurance, dependence, and devotional purpose.

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CommercialFaithResilienceGuidanceHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Plain Double-disc Sign preview
Pictish Symbols£0.99

Plain Double-disc Sign

Two linked circular forms appear without an accompanying Z-rod on the ninth-century Ulbster Stone in Caithness, creating the motif catalogued as the Plain Double-disc Sign. Its geometry is clear, but its original significance is not.

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CommercialBalanceFamilyIdentityHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Plain Serpent preview
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Plain Serpent

Carved without an accompanying rod or geometric device, the Plain Serpent offers a striking animal form within the Pictish symbol tradition. The example on Glamis 2 in Angus survives on an eighth-century cross-slab, but its original significance is unknown.

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CommercialTransformationRenewalIdentityHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Planetary Crossroads preview
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Planetary Crossroads

Crossing orbital paths create a moment of decision in this modern emblem, using celestial trajectories to explore choice, timing, convergence, and changing direction.

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CommercialGuidanceTransformationBalanceHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Planetary Orbit Sign preview
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Planetary Orbit Sign

A planet held to a recurring path gives this sign its sense of continuity, turning orbital motion into a contemporary emblem of balance, persistence, and purposeful return.

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CommercialBalanceGuidanceTransformationHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Polaris Needle Crest preview
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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

Engraving · documented field

Polygon Knot Sign preview
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Polygon Knot Sign

A path repeatedly crosses, turns, and continues without losing its structure, giving the Polygon Knot Sign a contemporary language for resilience, family, strength, connection, and relationships built through complexity.

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CommercialResilienceFamilyStrengthHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Poppy Time Seal preview
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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

Engraving · documented field

Portolan Wind Rose preview
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Portolan Wind Rose

Portolan charts transformed medieval seafaring knowledge into dense networks of coasts and directional lines; the later wind rose distils that navigational tradition into an emblem of orientation and guidance.

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CommercialGuidanceResilienceProtectionHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Primrose preview
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Primrose

The ordinary primrose was associated with early youth in late nineteenth-century floriography, while red and evening primroses were treated as separate emblems with different meanings.

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CommercialRenewalHopeHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Pyramid Horizon Seal preview
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Pyramid Horizon Seal

A contemporary seal inspired by Egyptian pyramidions and solar-horizon imagery, combining funerary architecture with themes of the sun’s passage, renewal and the afterlife.

3 variants9 filesPDFPNGSVG
CommercialProtectionRenewalGuidanceHistorically supported