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Emperor Francis II. elevates Johann Sechter, Colonel of the General Quaternary Staff and Knight of the Order of Maria Theresa, to the status of free lords, grants him predicates Wohlgebohrn and von Hermannstein and the coat of arms

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Character: description on folk. 10a - 11a, miniature on folk. 8a, 188 x 315 mm. A split shield. At the top there are two crossed swords with a blade upwards and a broken blade outwards 1) and with the golden elk and the auspices over which it is horizontally, a similar sword with a blade fractured down is placed on the left. Below in gold stands on a green lawn 2) a round plan tower with three shadows, two quadrangular openings and a closed gate, all natural colors. On the gable rests the crown of free lords and on it three crowned Tournament helmets with blue - gold blankets. Jewellery: I. owl of natural colors. II. growing black eagle 3). III. three pens, blue, gold, blue. Scorpions are two gold lions 4). The miniature is in a golden frame. The emblem stands on a gray, gold-laid pedestal with a pink top plate. The base stands on a floor of pink and gray tiles laid on a gray base. Behind the floor the scene of clay embankment passes into a grassed landscape. One pink ruins with red windows can be seen along each side of the pedestal. To the right of the pedestal, the ruins consist of one tower and a gate arch, to the left of a pedestal of two towers, of which the left tower is higher. To the right of the ruins grow green trees with a brown trunk, to the right of the pedestal there are two trees, to the left of the pedestal there is only one. Behind the buildings rises mountains, alternately always more distant and closer, closer mountains are blue, on the slopes of more distant mountains blue mixes with pink. The background of the miniature consists of a blue, at the upper edge of a black-violet azure overcast sky with gray clouds, which passes over the mountains to the grayworm. At the top, the scene is framed by a magenta draperium with golden fringes, embroidery and cords with stirrups. Three cartouches cross the edge of the frame at the top. The central one carries an oval shield with a caesarean emblem: a black, caesarean crowned eagle with a golden armor, red tongues and golden aureoalms in the right joint holds a silver sword with a golden ellipse and auspices, and a golden scepter, holding a golden sphere in the left joint, bearing a pollen label on the breast of the eagle, on the right in a red silver crossbar, on the left in gold a red cosmic crossbar with three silver alerio The side cartouches are smaller and lower perched than the middle cartouche. They carry round shields and are crowned by pagan crowns. In the right cartouche is the emblem of Uher: polceno, on the right in the red four silver crossbar, on the left in the red there is a silver patriarch cross on the green, gold-crowned triple top. In the left cartouche is the emblem of Bohemia: in red silver double-tailed, gold-crowned lion with red tongue. 1) Iron blades are in the miniature. - 2) In the miniature there is a mound in place of the lawn. - 3) In the miniature, the eagle has a red tongue. - 4) Lions have a red tongue in the miniature.  
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Title: Emperor Francis II. elevates Johann Sechter, Colonel of the General Quaternary Staff and Knight of the Order of Maria Theresa, to the status of free lords, grants him predicates Wohlgebohrn and von Hermannstein and the coat of arms
Description:
Character: description on folk.
10a - 11a, miniature on folk.
8a, 188 x 315 mm.
A split shield.
At the top there are two crossed swords with a blade upwards and a broken blade outwards 1) and with the golden elk and the auspices over which it is horizontally, a similar sword with a blade fractured down is placed on the left.
Below in gold stands on a green lawn 2) a round plan tower with three shadows, two quadrangular openings and a closed gate, all natural colors.
On the gable rests the crown of free lords and on it three crowned Tournament helmets with blue - gold blankets.
Jewellery: I.
owl of natural colors.
II.
growing black eagle 3).
III.
three pens, blue, gold, blue.
Scorpions are two gold lions 4).
The miniature is in a golden frame.
The emblem stands on a gray, gold-laid pedestal with a pink top plate.
The base stands on a floor of pink and gray tiles laid on a gray base.
Behind the floor the scene of clay embankment passes into a grassed landscape.
One pink ruins with red windows can be seen along each side of the pedestal.
To the right of the pedestal, the ruins consist of one tower and a gate arch, to the left of a pedestal of two towers, of which the left tower is higher.
To the right of the ruins grow green trees with a brown trunk, to the right of the pedestal there are two trees, to the left of the pedestal there is only one.
Behind the buildings rises mountains, alternately always more distant and closer, closer mountains are blue, on the slopes of more distant mountains blue mixes with pink.
The background of the miniature consists of a blue, at the upper edge of a black-violet azure overcast sky with gray clouds, which passes over the mountains to the grayworm.
At the top, the scene is framed by a magenta draperium with golden fringes, embroidery and cords with stirrups.
Three cartouches cross the edge of the frame at the top.
The central one carries an oval shield with a caesarean emblem: a black, caesarean crowned eagle with a golden armor, red tongues and golden aureoalms in the right joint holds a silver sword with a golden ellipse and auspices, and a golden scepter, holding a golden sphere in the left joint, bearing a pollen label on the breast of the eagle, on the right in a red silver crossbar, on the left in gold a red cosmic crossbar with three silver alerio The side cartouches are smaller and lower perched than the middle cartouche.
They carry round shields and are crowned by pagan crowns.
In the right cartouche is the emblem of Uher: polceno, on the right in the red four silver crossbar, on the left in the red there is a silver patriarch cross on the green, gold-crowned triple top.
In the left cartouche is the emblem of Bohemia: in red silver double-tailed, gold-crowned lion with red tongue.
1) Iron blades are in the miniature.
- 2) In the miniature there is a mound in place of the lawn.
- 3) In the miniature, the eagle has a red tongue.
- 4) Lions have a red tongue in the miniature.
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