The National Coats of Arms
As laid down in the National Coats of Arms Act of 1982, Sweden has two Coats of Arms, the Lesser and the Greater.The Lesser Coat of Arms, the one more frequently used, is blue with three crowns of gold, two over one. A closed crown is upper imposed on the escutcheon which is sometimes encircled with the chain of the Order of the Seraphim. (The Order of the Seraphim, established in 1748, is Sweden’s most distinguished order.) The triple crown device has been used as the emblem of Sweden at least since 1336, when it had long been a familiar symbol of the “Three Wise Kings”. According to one theory, King Magnus Eriksson (1319–64) adopted the device to symbolize his title, “King of Sweden, Norway and Scania”. The Greater Coat of Arms is that of the monarch, and is used on special occasions by the Government and by Parliament. Its arrangement dates from as early as the 1440s when it was used in the seal of King Karl Knutsson Bonde, and has been in use ever since. The escutcheon is divided quarterly and charged with the triple crown device and the “Folkunga Lion” (i.e., the arms of the ruling house of Sweden, 1250–1364). In the centre are the arms of the current ruling house. Since the early 19th century these have been the arms adopted by the then newly elected Crown Prince, the French marshal, Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, who acceded to the Swedish throne as King Karl XIV Johan. These arms are those of the “Vasa garb” representing the Vasa dynasty (1523–1654) together with the bridge representing the Principality of Ponte Corvo in Italy (given to Bernadotte by the Emperor Napoleon in 1806), complemented by the Napoleonic eBovengenoemd stukje gaat over het embleem op de foto.Deze week op mijn auto  de volvo executive verlengde level 2 versie aangebracht.Eerder zond ik al een foto, maar nu bezit ik er zelf één en prijkt die op mijn Volvo.Ron Bertsch.