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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 349469, member: 55"]Though often associated with Russia, the double-headed eagle has been a symbol of empire for a very long time, and has been widely used in the past and today - as I learned when researching a different thread.</p><p>Among other things, it was symbolic of the Byzantine and Holy Roman Empires, and is used today in the insignia of about 8 countries, and as a symbol for Mount Athos and the Greek Orthodox Church - which may have some relevance to the St. George motif; also appears as the symbol of various sports clubs, mostly in Greece and Turkey. But I've got no good guesses about this particular box.</p><p>See</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-headed_eagle" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-headed_eagle" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-headed_eagle</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 349469, member: 55"]Though often associated with Russia, the double-headed eagle has been a symbol of empire for a very long time, and has been widely used in the past and today - as I learned when researching a different thread. Among other things, it was symbolic of the Byzantine and Holy Roman Empires, and is used today in the insignia of about 8 countries, and as a symbol for Mount Athos and the Greek Orthodox Church - which may have some relevance to the St. George motif; also appears as the symbol of various sports clubs, mostly in Greece and Turkey. But I've got no good guesses about this particular box. See [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-headed_eagle[/URL][/QUOTE]
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