their shop-sign

Refers to the Le Camus brothers, who had adopted as crest the pelican which had been their grandfather's shop-sign, or to the Bazin de Besons family, whose shield displayed the three crowns of their draper's shop.

Note from Of Certain Customs, the fourteenth chapter of 'Characters' by Jean De La Bruyere (1688)

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