Color illustration: Fitz Simons coat of arms (crescents and eagle crest)
Book 1, Page 125
Transcription
A single printed and hand-colored heraldic illustration occupies the center of an otherwise blank album page. At the top, a small radiant sun-in-splendour with a face. Below the sun, an eagle stands on a wreath atop a tilted knight’s helm with green-and-silver mantling spreading to either side. The shield beneath shows two crescents argent in chief, a silver fesse charged with a single crescent across the middle, and a crescent in base — all argent on a sable field.
Beneath the shield, in blackletter:
Fitz Simons
AI Notes
A printed and hand-colored heraldic illustration centered on an otherwise blank album page. The shield bears three crescents argent and a silver fesse on a sable field — one crescent in chief dexter, one in chief sinister, one (charged on the fesse) in the centre, and one in base. Above the shield is a tilted knight’s helm with green-and-silver mantling, surmounted by a wreath and an eagle crest in red-brown; above the eagle, a small radiant sun-in-splendour with a face. Below the shield, in blackletter type: Fitz Simons. The crest here (an eagle) does NOT match the crest blazoned on the facing typescript at page 124 (‘A bear, passant, regardant, pulling from his shoulder an arrow’) — the typescript is drawn from Fox-Davies and Fairbairn, while this colored plate appears to be a commercial heraldic print obtained separately.
The crest depicted on this commercial print — an eagle — differs from the crest blazoned on the typed heraldic note at the facing page 124, which describes “A bear, passant, regardant, pulling from his shoulder an arrow.” The two sources evidently drew on different rolls of arms for the FitzSimons name.