Herald of the Holy Roman Empire; Herold der heiliges Romisches Reich. He wears an armorial tunic and carries an escutcheon with the black double-headed eagle on gold field. Chromolithograph from Otto Watzelberger's Beitraege zum Formenschatz der Heraldik (Contributions to the Vocabulary of Heraldry), Theodor Ackermann, Munich, 1900. Otto Watzelberger was Secretary of the Koeniglich Bayerischen Haus-Ritter-Ordens vom heiligen Georg (Royal Bavarian House Equestrian Order of Saint George).

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