Reichsadler Humps, Lightly inserted bottom. Smooth, applied stand ring. On the cylindrical body, slightly tapered at the top, the black, double-headed Reindeer with yellow crown and nimbus. For the chest a crucifix with wide-spread loincloth. On the wings at the top, in a horizontal row, the weapons of the Electoral Domes: on the right of Christ the clergyman, Trier, Coln (Cologne) and Mentz (Mainz), for the sake of symmetry supplemented by the coat of arms of Rome, on his left the worldly, Behem (Bohemia), Pfaltz, Sachssen and Brandenburg. Below that, in two times six vertical rows, each
Reichsadler Humps, Lightly inserted bottom. Smooth, applied stand ring. On the cylindrical body, slightly tapered at the top, the black, double-headed Reindeer with yellow crown and nimbus. For the chest a crucifix with wide-spread loincloth. On the wings at the top, in a horizontal row, the weapons of the Electoral Domes: on the right of Christ the clergyman, Trier, Coln (Cologne) and Mentz (Mainz), for the sake of symmetry supplemented by the coat of arms of Rome, on his left the worldly, Behem (Bohemia), Pfaltz, Sachssen and Brandenburg. Below that, in two times six vertical rows, each with a banderole with explanatory lettering, the shields of the Quaterniones Imperii - read from left to right, thus starting at the rear - the Bauern, represented by Coln, Regensburg, Cosenitz (Konstanz) and Salzburg, then Augsburg, Metz, Ach (Aachen), and Lubeck for the Stett, the cities, Lundburg (Limburg), Westerburg, Thussis and Alwalden for the Semperfreien, the Freiherren, Meidburg, Nurmberg, Remeck (Reineck) and Stramberg for the Burggraven, Merchern (M hren), Brandenburg, Meichssen and Baden for the Marggraven, close to the cross, the four Seill or Sülen, the considerable princes, Braunschweig, Bairen (Bavaria), Schwaben and Lutring (Lotheringen). Then on the other side of the cross, Brabandt, (Nieder-Sachsen), Westerreich (Westerreich-Burgund) and Schlesig for the Vicary, During (Th rings), Edelsas (Alsace) Hessen and Leuchtenberg for the landgraves, Cleve, Savoy, Schwartzburg and Zilli for the Counts: Andelaw, Weissenbach, Fraunberg (Frauenberg) and Strundeck for the Ritter, Bamberg, Ulm, Hagenaw and Sletstat for the Dorffer and Magdaburg, Lutzelburg, Rotenburg and Altenburg for the Birg, the fortresses. At the rear on the wings the Burgundian fire with sparks, between the wings a crowned snake that wraps itself around a tau cross. Above the image the date 1586 and the inscription: DAS HEILIGE. ROMIC. REICH. MIT. SAMPDT. SEIN, anonymous, Bohemen (possibly), 1
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