Coat of arms of Vaxholm Municipality
Swedish blazon
Kluven i röd och silver, en genom vågskura bildad stam av motsatta tinkturer, i första fältet ett från skuran framkommande skepp av silver, i andra fältet ett uppstigande rött torn.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- (1690): Used as a seal as of
- 15 July 1944: Royal confirmation on
- 22 July 1988: 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 pale
- field
- Argent
- Gules
- tower
- ship
- base wavy
- counterchanged
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.
