Coat of arms of Säter

Säter’s arms show a smith standing on black ground in a silver field. He raises a blue tool with a black handle toward a red iron blank and wears a red cap, black trousers and shoes, and gold stockings, face and arms.

Swedish description in the Heraldica record

I fält av silver en svart mark varpå en stående smed av guld klädd blå med röd hatt med svarta skor hållande en blå slägga med svart skaft och åtföljd till dexter av ett annat rött föremål.

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

1642: Used as a seal as of
15 February 1946: Royal confirmation on
11 December 1987: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration

The arms and their blazon

The municipal history quotes the 1642 town privileges, which specified “a man with a hammer or sledge in his hand” for the town seal and arms.

Source: Säters kommun: Grafisk profil

Background in the municipal sources

Local tradition attributes the figure to Queen Christina, and it has also been interpreted as a smith linked with metalworking in the town. These are traditions and interpretations, not blazon details.

Source: Säters kommun: Historien om Säter

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
blacksmith
object
field
Or
Argent
Gules
Azure
Sable
terrace
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.