Coat of arms of Sala
Sala’s arms show a silver mining hammer and pick crossed on blue, with a waxing crescent above.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält en slägga av silver korslagd med en korphacka av silver och varöver en tilltagande måne av silver.
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
- (1631): Used as a seal as of
- 28 May 1948: Royal confirmation on
- 31 January 1975: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms’ design
The municipality’s guide identifies the tools as a mining hammer and a mining iron, and connects the arms’ symbols with silver mining. It also notes that the crescent was debated for years.
Background and the source’s interpretation
Sala says use of the arms’ symbols is documented on seals and coins from before the city’s oldest privileges in 1624. The city arms were established in 1948 and became the new municipality’s arms in 1971.
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
- increscent
- field
- Argent
- Azure
- pickaxe
- sledgehammer
- unpartitioned
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.
