Coat of arms of Karlshamn Municipality
Swedish blazon
Sköld genom en vågskura delad i guld och grön, i första fältet ett uppstigande svart lejon med röd beväring hållande mellan tassarna ett stolpvis ställt svart ankare.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 28 February 1666: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
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
- per fess
- field
- Or
- Gules
- Sable
- Vert
- anchor
- lion
Sources and image use
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.
