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Engraving · documented field

Red Rose preview
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Red Rose

A nineteenth-century botanical emblem of love, with period flower dictionaries specifically linking the red rose with beauty and romantic affection.

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CommercialLoveHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Rose Through Dagger preview
Flash Classics£0.99

Rose Through Dagger

A rose pierced by a dagger sets tenderness against danger in one of tattooing's most enduring visual contrasts. This modern flash composition can speak to love carried through pain, memory that survives loss, or beauty defended by strength.

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CommercialFaithLoveBalanceHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Royal Artillery Gun Badge — British Army, 18th–Early 20th Century preview
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Royal Artillery Gun Badge — British Army, 18th–Early 20th Century

A muzzle-loading field gun forms the centre of this documented Royal Artillery cap badge, accompanied in the complete insignia by a crown and motto scrolls.

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CommercialIdentityHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Russian Imperial Double-Headed Eagle Cockade or Badge — 19th Century–1917 preview
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Russian Imperial Double-Headed Eagle Cockade or Badge — 19th Century–1917

A crowned double-headed Imperial Russian eagle was fitted to military helmet plates, busbies, buckles and specialist badges before 1917.

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CommercialIdentityHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Scallop Shell Badge preview
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Scallop Shell Badge

The scallop shell became one of medieval Europe's most recognisable signs of pilgrimage, carried home from Santiago de Compostela as a visible marker of journey, devotion, and return.

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CommercialFaithIdentityGuidanceHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Shields Mark preview
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Shields Mark

A shield turns defence into something visible: a surface that can stand between danger and the vulnerable while also carrying identity, allegiance, courage, and resolve.

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CommercialGuidanceProtectionStrengthHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Stringed Bugle-Horn Badge — British Light Infantry and Rifles, c. 1800–1918 preview
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Stringed Bugle-Horn Badge — British Light Infantry and Rifles, c. 1800–1918

A bugle horn suspended by knotted cords served as a recurring badge device for British and British Indian rifle and light-infantry regiments.

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CommercialIdentityHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Valknut preview
Norse & Rune-Inspired£0.99

Valknut

Three interlocking triangles form an ancient Scandinavian motif whose exact meaning is unknown; modern interpretation often links it with Odin, death, warrior memory, and the afterlife, but none is securely attested.

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CommercialDeathMemoryIdentityHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Vegvisir preview
Norse & Rune-Inspired£0.99

Vegvisir

Vegvísir belongs to nineteenth-century Icelandic magical tradition, where it was recorded as a wayfinding stave for keeping one's path through storms and unfamiliar conditions—not as a Viking compass.

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CommercialGuidanceProtectionHopeHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Yggdrasil preview
Norse & Rune-Inspired£0.99

Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil is the world tree of medieval Norse cosmology, a vast living structure around which gods, beings, roots, and realms are organised. Modern symbolism draws from that image to express connection, endurance, ancestry, and balance.

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CommercialBalanceResilienceFamilyHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Abrasax Gem preview
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Abrasax Gem

A Roman magical gem showing Abrasax with rooster head, human torso, serpent legs, shield, and whip—a composite image used for protection.

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CommercialProtectionStrengthHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Agnus Dei Seal preview
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Agnus Dei Seal

The haloed Lamb of God, often carrying a cross-staff or banner, was a familiar medieval image of Christ whose apparent gentleness carried powerful ideas of sacrifice and redemption.

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CommercialFaithCompassionHumilityHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Air Current Sign preview
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Air Current Sign

Invisible until it moves something, air becomes visible here through sweeping current lines—a fitting image for direction, freedom, change and clear thought.

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CommercialGuidanceTransformationWisdomHistorically supported

Engraving · 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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CommercialTransformationWisdomRenewalHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Algiz preview
Norse & Rune-Inspired£0.99

Algiz

Algiz is famous today as a protection rune, but that meaning is far less secure historically than its popularity suggests. Its original name is disputed; sanctuary, defence, courage, and warding belong chiefly to influential modern interpretation.

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CommercialProtectionResilienceHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Alpha and Omega Mark preview
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Alpha and Omega Mark

Alpha and Omega, the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, became a Christian declaration of Christ as beginning and end and remained a powerful motif in medieval art.

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CommercialFaithIdentityHopeHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Anchor Crest preview
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Anchor Crest

An anchor is designed to hold when everything around it moves, giving this crest an enduring maritime language of steadiness, hope, resilience, attachment, and safe return.

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CommercialHopeGuidanceResilienceHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Anchor Dagger Crest preview
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Anchor Dagger Crest

The anchor holds while the dagger cuts forward. Both belong to the historic vocabulary of sailor and military tattooing, but their pairing here is modern: an emblem of steadiness under pressure, hope through danger and the determination to find a way back.

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CommercialHopeProtectionGuidanceHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Andean Stepped Cross Motif preview
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Andean Stepped Cross Motif

This stepped-cross motif comes from a painted Andean cotton textile, tentatively attributed to Chimu culture, where it appears alongside coiled serpent forms.

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CommercialBalanceIdentityTransformationHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Animal Identified as a Lion preview
Pictish Symbols£0.99

Animal Identified as a Lion

Among the animals carved on the ninth-century Ulbster Stone in Caithness is a creature identified in the heritage record as a lion. The identification is deliberately qualified, and neither the animal's precise identity nor its Pictish significance is completely secure.

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CommercialStrengthProtectionResilienceHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Ansuz preview
Norse & Rune-Inspired£0.99

Ansuz

Ansuz sits at the meeting point of divine and spoken language: its reconstructed name is linked with the gods, while later rune poetry develops themes of speech, wisdom, message, and inspired communication.

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CommercialWisdomGuidanceHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Apex Path Mark preview
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Apex Path Mark

Lines gather toward a defined apex, giving this mark a strong sense of chosen direction and making it a contemporary symbol of guidance, hope, transformation and progress toward a deliberately selected goal.

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CommercialBalanceGuidanceHopeHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Arch or Horseshoe Sign preview
Pictish Symbols£0.99

Arch or Horseshoe Sign

A narrow weathered arch-shaped mark appears beside a human figure on the seventh-century Newton of Collessie Standing Stone in Fife. Known as the Arch or Horseshoe Sign, its name describes resemblance rather than a securely identified object.

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CommercialLuckProtectionIdentityHistorically supported

Engraving · documented field

Ash and Rain Sign preview
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Ash and Rain Sign

Ash marks what has already burned; rain marks what comes after. Together they make an uneasy but hopeful image of aftermath, cooling and the work of beginning again.

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CommercialRenewalTransformationResilienceHistorically supported