Austro-Hungarian Small Imperial Arms

Blazoning: A double-headed eagle sable, armed and crowned, holding a scepter and sword in dexter claw and an orb in sinister claw, all of the second, beneath the Austrian imperial crown stringed azure; on its breast an escutcheon surrounded by the Collar of the Golden Fleece, bearing tierced per pale: Or, a lion gules crowned azure (Habsburg), Gules a fess argent (Austria), Or on a bend gules three allerions argent (Lorraine).
In use: before 1848
Abandoned: 1918
Source: Meyers Konversations Lexicon, Wien 1897.
Note: The great arms of the empire had the arms all of the Landes on it, in various positions in different times.
Thanks to: http://jagor.srce.hr/~zheimer/flags/descr/ahxhisto.htm


These are the regional crests of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.



This is a medieval tower in Bacs. Click on the image to get a larger version of it.

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