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21-FEB-2006

Swedish coat-of-arms

Stockholm, Sweden

The centre of attention within all the decoration, the taffrail decoration is a representation of the Swedish coat of arms supported by two lions. Of particular perverse interest is the presence of three crowns in the top-left and bottom-right part of the coat of arms, one each for Norway, Denmark and Sweden. The Danish king had them too, on his coat of arms. Needless to say, wars were fought over this for a couple of hundred years.

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