Sunday, 19 July 2020

Unicorn Watermark

Eilean Malden, distinguished scholar and Fellow of our Society, has sent me the following very beautiful watermark:


Although not uncommon as a water mark, as a brief trawl through the Gravell Archive  will show, this particular Unicorn is sternly resistent to exact dating. Eilean found it in the Arma Scotica which is bound into the Gibbon Armorial at the College of Arms.