Location: Idaho - where men are men and spuds are spuds
Can someone please decipher the symbols on the 1960 DeSoto hood ornament? It looks like a wine glass, star or cross and keylock. What's the significance of these symbols?
Posted 2022-06-24 11:43 AM (#622354 - in reply to #622324) Subject: Re: 1960 DeSoto Hood Ornament
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The locks are part of Hernando's coat of arms & heraldry. I don't know why that symbol was considered worth noting back then. My family surname's coat of arms shows shackles & chains on it. What an advertisement! Maybe it's a threat of what they would do to anyone that opposes them? As for the goblets, I don't know where that comes from. My only guess is it has to do with his original quest to find gold in the new world.