St. Crispin Society banner, 1819

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

50857

Title

One blue ribbed silk banner for the St. Crispin Society, 1819.

Description

One blue ribbed silk banner for the St.Crispin Society, with painted identical decoration on both sides, rolled around wooden pole and tacked into place. The banner has a gold silk fringe on three sides. The title scroll banner is in a cartouche and reads, 'DUCIT AMOR REGIS ET PATRIAE (top) 1449 (bottom) (black on pink). The centre panel features the Cordiners coat of arms with bejewelled crown over a Shoemakers' half-moon knife' on a cream background.

Date

1819

Size

150 x 150 cm

Location

The People's Story

Accession number

HH536/09

Copyright

The City of Edinburgh Council Museums & Galleries ; The People's Story

This flag was probably one of a pair made in 1819 from a design by Mr.Lawson, for a total cost of one pound thirteen shillings. These standards were consecrated on October 25, 1819 (the anniversary of St. Crispin). The motto translates as 'Love of king and country Leads'. The Royal St. Crispin Society was founded in June 1817 and dissolved in 1851. The society was a friendly society constituted 'with the sole object of affording sick, annuity and funeral allowances to its members', who were mainly shoemakers.

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