These are coats of arms and can be described precisely but no more precisely than necessary in a language called blazon .
People have coats of arms and organisations have coats of arms.
Different branches use variants of the main coat of arms in which, perhaps, the colours have been re-arranged. Heraldry can therefore give clues about hitherto unsuspected relationships between individuals. Antiquarian Heraldry is found in churches, on memorials, portraits, silver, china, It can often give a clue to the age of such items and the circumstances of manufacture. Art and Design As noted above, a coat of arms is specified by its description only . Therefore, different artists can interpret the same coat of arms in very different ways.