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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ranger Rick, post: 4622632, member: 16265&quot;]One More Tidbit&nbsp; </p><p><font size="4"><b>&quot;I should add that when I said it probably ended up incorporated into an overmantel (as commonly they did), this wasn&#039;t its original use. Yours would have been one of a pair of &#039;carriage panels&#039;. If you could not afford your own carriage you would hire one, say to go to church on Sunday in the early 19th century. The hired carriage would have an open topped frame set on each door on either side of the carriage and you would drop/slide one of your coat of arms panels into each door to proudly display it, and remove them at the end of the hire. As most carriages were painted black and gold, the panels were likely similarly decorated originally and stripped in later life when refurbished.The side and bottom edges would get worn as slid into the frames, hence the wirn sides were often trimmed off a bit in later life when refurbished, hence you are missing some of the decoration on the sides now. Jon.&quot;</b></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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