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General Service ‘Rising Sun’ Badge — Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, 1902–1918 preview
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General Service ‘Rising Sun’ Badge — Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, 1902–1918

Australia’s 1902 General Service Badge arranged a crown and trophy of arms above an “AUSTRALIA” scroll; it later became popularly known as the Rising Sun.

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George Munford Norwich Merchant Mark preview
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George Munford Norwich Merchant Mark

Personal merchant mark of Norwich grocer George Munford.

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Goat-Fish — Documented Sumerian/Akkadian Motif, Ur III–Old Babylonian preview
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Goat-Fish — Documented Sumerian/Akkadian Motif, Ur III–Old Babylonian

Ur III–Old Babylonian hybrid of goat forequarters and carp tail, used as a seal field emblem; Enki/Ea association is later labeling, not the type name.

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Golden Dawn Rose Cross Lamen preview
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Golden Dawn Rose Cross Lamen

A coloured ritual lamen worn by adepts of the Golden Dawn’s inner order, combining Rosicrucian, alchemical, astrological, and kabbalistic elements.

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Gorgon Mask Seal preview
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Gorgon Mask Seal

The ancient gorgoneion confronts the viewer head-on: staring eyes, bared teeth, tongue and snakes turn the face itself into a warning. This modern seal preserves that directness as an emblem of protection, danger and defiance.

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Great Seal Eagle Cap Device — United States Army, 1902–1918 preview
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Great Seal Eagle Cap Device — United States Army, 1902–1918

The 1902 U.S. Army uniform regulations prescribed a gilt United States coat-of-arms device for officers’ service caps.

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Greek-Letter Incantation Gem preview
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Greek-Letter Incantation Gem

A Roman onyx amulet densely inscribed on both sides with an incantation in Greek letters, preserving protective words whose precise force is not stated in the museum record.

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Griffin Wing Seal preview
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Griffin Wing Seal

Lion strength and eagle flight meet in the griffin, a hybrid whose imposing form became well suited to guarding valuable or sacred spaces. The wing seal distils that character into protection, courage and watchful strength.

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Grimoire Star Seal preview
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Grimoire Star Seal

Historical grimoires preserve specific seals whose details matter; this is deliberately not one of them. The original star-and-seal composition instead uses the atmosphere of the manuscript page to represent study, orientation and the search for knowledge that must be worked for rather than simply revealed.

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Hagalaz preview
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Hagalaz

Hagalaz begins with hail: sudden, physical and beyond human control. Later rune poems preserve that weather image clearly, while modern symbolism asks what follows the storm—adaptation, courage, resilience, and difficult change.

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Hammer and Anvil Pair preview
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Hammer and Anvil Pair

Two small forms flanking a Tuning-fork Sign on the seventh-century Abernethy symbol stone have been tentatively described as a hammer and anvil. The identifications are uncertain, making the pair an especially useful example of cautious archaeological naming.

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Hand of Benediction preview
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Hand of Benediction

Raised in blessing by Christ, saints and bishops, the benediction hand became a familiar medieval image of sacred authority, prayer and the giving of divine favour.

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Hand Seal preview
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Hand Seal

An open hand can offer, warn, promise, guide, or protect; this seal uses that ambiguity to make human agency and responsibility more important than any claimed magical power.

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Hans Petzolt Ram's Head Mark preview
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Hans Petzolt Ram's Head Mark

Ram’s-head maker’s punch of Nuremberg goldsmith Hans Petzolt.

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Harmonic Ring Sign preview
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Harmonic Ring Sign

Repeated rings create rhythm without needing sound, making this sign a quiet contemporary emblem of balance, peace, resilience and the way recurring patterns can hold different stages within one coherent whole.

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Harpy Wing Device preview
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Harpy Wing Device

Harpies arrive suddenly and take things away. Ancient Greek scenes of the creatures carrying off Phineus's food give this isolated wing a sharper meaning: swift disruption, unavoidable consequence and the unsettling power of forces that cannot be held.

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Hawthorn preview
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Hawthorn

Hawthorn was a nineteenth-century emblem of hope—more particularly a lover's hope in one period account—with its May blossom also carrying older associations with courtship and marriage.

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Heart and Blade preview
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Heart and Blade

Hearts and blades share a long history in sailor and military flash, where names and mottos often made the image personal. Without that inscription, this modern pairing leaves room for love, hurt, memory and the resolve to carry all three.

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Hearth Cauldron Seal preview
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Hearth Cauldron Seal

Before it became an icon of witch imagery, the cauldron was simply a working vessel beside the fire. This modern seal returns to that domestic foundation, using hearth and vessel together to represent home, nourishment, renewal and change shaped through time and care.

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Heart in Hand preview
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Heart in Hand

A heart shown in an open hand, documented on nineteenth-century Odd Fellows ceremonial staffs and lodge objects.

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Heart Tablet preview
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Heart Tablet

Framed like an inscription meant to be kept, the heart becomes a place for what matters personally: love, loyalty, faith, memory, devotion, or the name and story that someone chooses to carry forward.

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Hekataion Crossroads Figure preview
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Hekataion Crossroads Figure

A triple-bodied figure of Hekate associated with pathways and crossroads, expressing guardianship at places of passage and uncertain direction.

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Helm of Awe preview
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Helm of Awe

The Helm of Awe has two histories: a fear-inducing object in medieval Norse literature and, much later, a radial Icelandic magical stave used in protective contexts. The familiar graphic form belongs to the later tradition.

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Herakles Knot Ornament preview
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Herakles Knot Ornament

An interlaced Hellenistic jewellery motif associated in antiquity with the power to cure wounds and protect the wearer.

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