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Keys of Saint Peter preview
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Keys of Saint Peter

The keys given to Saint Peter became one of medieval Christianity's clearest images of apostolic authority, linking the Gospel promise of the 'keys of the kingdom' with Peter and the Church of Rome.

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CommercialFaithIdentityGuidanceHistorically supported

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Knots Device preview
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Knots Device

Rope gains strength through the way it is joined, bent, and secured, giving this device a maritime language for connection, resilience, continuity, and bonds made to hold under strain.

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CommercialResilienceFamilyBalanceHistorically supported

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Lantern Frame preview
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Lantern Frame

A lantern carries a small circle of visibility into darkness. Framed as an emblem, it becomes less about distant navigation than the immediate act of keeping watch, finding the next step, and protecting a light through the night.

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CommercialGuidanceHopeProtectionHistorically supported

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Lantern Grave Mark preview
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Lantern Grave Mark

A lantern beside the grave changes darkness from emptiness into vigil, making this mark an image of remembrance, watchfulness, comfort, and keeping a light for someone absent.

3 variants9 filesPDFPNGSVG
CommercialGuidanceMemoryFaithHistorically supported

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Last Flame Seal preview
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Last Flame Seal

A final flame holds at the edge of darkness, capturing the fragile interval before extinction while leaving open another reading: that even a small surviving light can become memory, vigil, faith, or hope.

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CommercialDeathMemoryHopeHistorically supported

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Level and Plumb preview
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Level and Plumb

Two builders’ tools used in Masonic teaching: the level for equality and the plumb for upright conduct and integrity.

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CommercialBalanceIdentityHistorically supported

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Lighthouse Seal preview
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Lighthouse Seal

A lighthouse does not remove the hazard; it makes the hazard visible and gives the mariner a reference point, turning this seal into an emblem of guidance, vigilance, hope, and return.

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CommercialGuidanceHopeProtectionHistorically supported

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Lock Motifs Emblem preview
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Lock Motifs Emblem

A lock does more than keep something out: it defines what is valued enough to secure, making this emblem about protection, privacy, trust, attachment, and controlled access.

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CommercialProtectionIdentityLoveHistorically supported

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Lunar Key Emblem preview
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Lunar Key Emblem

A key suggests access; a crescent reminds us that timing and conditions change. Combined without claiming a historic witch sign, they form a modern emblem for discovering the right opening, recognising when to act and accepting that not every door is meant to open at once.

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CommercialGuidanceProtectionTransformationHistorically supported

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Masonic Trowel preview
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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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Mexica Tecpatl Flint Year Sign preview
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Mexica Tecpatl Flint Year Sign

Tecpatl, “Flint”, is one of the four repeating year signs of the Nahua 52-year cycle, where the blade image functions primarily as calendrical notation.

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CommercialTransformationBalanceIdentityHistorically supported

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Mirror Veil Sigil preview
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Mirror Veil Sigil

A mirror promises an image, while a veil interrupts certainty about what can be seen. Combined in this original sigil, reflection becomes less about prediction than about self-knowledge, uncertainty and the courage to examine what remains partly hidden.

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CommercialProtectionWisdomIdentityHistorically supported

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Mirror-and-comb Pair preview
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Mirror-and-comb Pair

A mirror and comb appear together among the carvings of Aberlemno I in Angus, forming one of the Pictish repertoire's most recognisable object pairings. The objects can be described visually, but why they were paired and what they signified remain unknown.

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CommercialIdentityWisdomBalanceHistorically supported

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Moth and Flame Sign preview
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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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Pelican Vessel Crest preview
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Retort Diagram preview
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Retort Diagram

A modern diagram inspired by the retort, a bent-neck vessel used historically for heating and distillation, here interpreted as a symbol of study, refinement and controlled transformation.

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CommercialTransformationWisdomRenewalHistorically supported

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Rope Frame preview
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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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Sican Tumi Ceremonial Knife preview
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Sican Tumi Ceremonial Knife

Elaborate Lambayeque-Sican tumis were crescent-bladed ceremonial knives associated with ritual display, elite status, power and funerary deposition.

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CommercialIdentityStrengthFaithHistorically supported

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Sixfold Compass Device preview
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Sixfold Compass Device

Six equal directions radiate from one centre, turning compass construction into a contemporary image of orientation, balance, guidance, and the moment when many possible paths must be measured against a chosen centre.

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CommercialBalanceGuidanceWisdomHistorically supported

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Threshold Key Mark preview
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Threshold Key Mark

A threshold separates one space from another; a key decides whether passage is possible. This original mark combines them as an emblem of access, permission and the responsibility that comes with choosing what may enter, leave or remain protected.

3 variants9 filesPDFPNGSVG
CommercialGuidanceProtectionTransformationHistorically supported