TRANSVAAL (South Africa).

TRANSVAAL (South Africa). No warrant assigning arms was issued to the Transvaal as a British Colony, but the device published by the Admiralty for use on the Union flag by the Governor is a landscape disc, thereon a lion couchant to the sinister, all proper. The arms of the defunct South African Republic were as follows : —

" In front of a trophy of six flags, three on either side, each representing the 'Vieurkleur' [three horizontal stripes, red, white, and blue, and next the staff a perpendicular stripe of green], an oval cartouche with gilt edges bearing the following design, per fesse and in chief per pale the dexter chief gules on a mount in base vert, a lion couchant to the sinister or ; the sinister chief azure, on a mount in base vert a pioneer holding in his hand a rifle all proper ; the base vert, on a mount a covered wagon all proper, over all an inescutcheon argent charged with an anchor cabled proper. The cartouche is surmounted by an eagle perched thereon proper with expanded wings and issuing in saltire below the cartouche are two spades. MIotto — " Eendracht maakt magt."

These arms are now defunct, but as indicative of the Transvaal the wagon survives in the arms recently assigned to the Union of South Africa, to which refer.

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