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If this helps: My surname is Harting, we were Dutch merchants operating out of Indonesia and we even governed over the town of Depok outside of Batavia (Jakarta).Monson Coat of Arms Family Crest T-Shirt A notable member of our family is my great great great great grandfather, Pieter Harting, a prominent Dutch biologist and friend of Charles Darwin. He helped spread the theory of evolution to the Netherlands and the rest of Western Europe.

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I would describe the arms as being three gold shells, resting on a banner of azure diagonally intercepting a field of white. As the caption in one of my photos says, I cannot tell what this crest is. It looks to be some sort of sea dragon or a weird dog between bushels of wheat or maybe pillars? Yes the shield itself has 3 gold scallops resting on a banner of azure diagonally intercepting a field of white. Monson Coat of Arms Family Crest T-Shirt It’s that creature on top of the helmet that puzzels me… Nobody in my family knows, I have reached out to a Belgian heraldic scholar and he did not know. I’m pretty stumped.

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To me it looks like either some sort of sea dragon or perhaps a dog with two pillars or bushels of Monson Coat of Arms Family Crest T-Shirt omething on either side? Funny enough if you look at Charles Darwin‘s coat of arms there are some striking similarities, although the colors are quite different. I wouldn’t worry about what people owned. That’s all long gone. Researching this stuff is about connecting with the past to understand more about the present which is much more valuable. At least imho.