Heraldic Trade Crest Letterhead Maker
A 19th-century trade-card shield, quartered and ruled, with your initial at its centre. It takes one initial or two, and the lettering re-sizes to suit either.
The heraldic trade crest, one initial or two
A quartered shield ruled in the manner of a nineteenth-century trade card, in oxblood on parchment, with your initial at the centre — or two initials, with the lettering re-sized to suit. It belongs on the stationery of a trade that wants its age to show: a joinery, a tailor, a chandler, a brewer, a family firm in its third generation. Of the three crest letterhead makers this is the most ornamented and the most obviously period.
Everything outside the shield — the company name, the tracked capitals, the established line — stays live text in the download, so the crest is the only thing you cannot retype, and it is the one thing you would not want to.
Specifications: US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches, portrait. The Word download is a .dotx template with the artwork embedded at print resolution; it opens in Word 2007 through Microsoft 365, including Word for Mac. The Google Docs button opens a copy in your own Drive. One page, fully editable, free — no account and no watermark.
Other crest letterhead makers besides the Heraldic Trade Crest Letterhead Maker
- Family Crest Letterhead Maker — A heraldic shield with chevron and four gold stars, your initial at the center
- Estate Crest — Two initials on an ink shield with a gold inner lining, above the name block
Merchants used to put a shield on everything they shipped. This is that idea, drawn cleanly: one initial reads classic and formal, two reads like a house mark.
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