Date:         Fri, 20 Jan 95 14:28:01 MST
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From:         todds@sonny.chotel.com
Subject:      Re: Westfalia Horses 

--Mary Smith said:--
> Now, about this Ferrari-esque horse on the Westfalias "everyone" was 
> talking
> about a few weeks ago (I know, I'm a little behind the times!), while
>  labeling
> a box of new books/tapes for the Department the other day, I saw a pa
> ge in a
> book that had the "coat-of-arms" for all the German "states".  Westfa
> liawerke
> is in Nordrhein-Westfalen, I beleive, (either that in Niedersachsen--
> either way
> my theory works...) and the "coat-of-arms" for that state has the Fer
> rari-esque
> horse in it.  Hope this clears up the mystery.  (the coat-of-arms for
>  Nieder-
> sachsen also has a Ferrari-esque horse).  I'd certainly be curious to
>  find out
> if this is indeed how the horse got there!
> Mary Smith

Permit an amateur herald to respond: the arms of the German
State of Westphalia are :
 
WESTPHALIA.  Gules, a horse courant argent.

That is, On a red background, a white horse on its hind legs.

The Ferrari horse is black, as I remember.  It may or may not
be the same as the arms of Stuttgart -- I don't have a German
Armorial with me.

Thanks for the help with the curtain tabby things, by the way.
-- 
Todd R. Schroeder          |This is not the luggage ticket (baggage    
todds@sunnet.chotel.com    |check) described in Article 4 of the Warsaw
'71 Campmobile		   |Convention as amended by the Hague Protocol
			   |of 1955.