Coat of arms of Heby
Heby’s quartered arms show a red masoned field, a pair of farrier’s tongs and two upright red sickles with crossing blades.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
Kvadrerad, i första och fjärde fältet, i rött fält murat av silver, i andra fältet, i fält av silver en röd tång, i tredje fältet, i fält av silver två sammanflätade röda skäror.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. How it was composed and whether it is an official blazon have not been independently verified here. The editorial text below is based on the linked municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 1 February 1980: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms’ design
The municipality’s graphic guidelines give the blazon: red masoned fields in quarters one and four, a silver pair of farrier’s tongs in quarter two, and two upright red sickles in quarter three whose blades cross twice.
Background and the source’s interpretation
The guidelines say the National Archives’ heraldic section developed the arms and the municipal council approved them on 10 September 1979. They distinguish the blazon, which defines the arms’ content, from any one drawing of it.
Heraldic elements
The heraldic elements are identified using HERO, a heraldry ontology published through Finland's Finto service. It provides structured terminology for describing coats of arms and their components. The list describes the structure of the arms, not the symbolic meaning of its elements.
- escutcheon
- sickle
- tongs
- field
- Argent
- Gules
- quarterly
- two
Sources and image rights
Heraldica / National Archives of Finland · Wikidata
Image licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Image source and credit: National Archives of Sweden / Vladimir Sagerlund
Original image. The image has been resized and converted to WebP. The derivative retains the original image’s licence.
