Coats of Arms on a wedding altar

[Elsa-Mary]

Hi, from Spain,
 
Forgive my ignorance -does that mean that there maybe some experts who could perhaps tell me about coats of arms I have on anantique wedding alter.

This Alter is made of I believe Black Irish bog wood,and has various coats of arms,carved on front and doors,had been told that the arms were of the bride and groom.
Also on the front is carved   "TYME TRYETH TROTH"

I would be so interested to know who the family coats of arms were.

Sorry if this is not what this board is for.
Elsa-Mary

[Stephen J F Plowman]

Elsa-Mary

Can you post an image of the Arms?

[heywood]

Hello,

there are a couple of references on the web which link the motto to the Trevellyan family, Somerset - here is one:

http://www.stogumber.org.uk/church.php

regards
heywood

[behindthefrogs]

Minor variations of the motto seem to have been used by various Trevellyan family in both Cornwall and Northumberland e.g. tyme spelt time and troth replaced by truth.

However I haven't found any examples of it being used by other families.

To get any further we need to see the full coats of arms.

David

[Elsa-Mary]

Hello and Felice Navidad,
 To  everyone who answered my post-for some reason I did not get notification so apologies to All
I have never posted image-but willing to give it a go.
As yet not taken a picture of Altar-but will do so,didn't think anyone would be able to help.
Will  do so asap,
  Description of the arms  carved on Altar in the meantime are :

On Upper section,Left  outer Shield with 3 Anchors ?alongside Shield with 3 stripes(   \\\ with small crescent moon in top right.


Upper Right outer Sheild with 3 fluer de lis( like Prince of Wales feathers?)

Alongside inner to right Sheild with \\\ stripes.


Lower Altar base Middle section --curved fish-with head and tail to left.

Sorry, hope this is fairly good description- try to do the photo tomorrow.

Adios
Elsa-Mary

[Elsa-Mary]

Hi,
Trying one photo of shield,Please let me know if ok
Elsa-MARY

[Roger in Sussex]

Hi Elsa-Mary,

your image looks like three ermine spots on a shield. Usually they were used to indicate fur (in which case there are lots of them in a neat pattern), but sometimes (not so often) they are used as "charges", i.e. objects in their own right (fewer and bigger), and I think that might be the case here. See link for a much better explanation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermine_%28heraldry%29

Are there any traces of colour on your altar? If so that might help a lot in trying to identify the possible owners of the arms.

Roger

[Elsa-Mary]

Bless
THANK  you  You Roger

[Elsa-Mary]

Roger--
Bless you !!!
Thank you,it came out !!!!

No no colour-all shields--EXCEPT top Cross-similar in size,it is wood-a very dark wood-I have been told , thought Bog Oak-.
A very -to me beautiful carved piece of furniture,- I have polished this for 55 years myself !!!
I love carved furniture---AND SO did my Mother-who had this many many years.
Hope I can post another shield for  info,
Elsa-Mary