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    Quote Originally Posted by Surpmil View Post
    From a heraldic reference of the late 19th C. the motto is associated with several families, but only one which uses a wolf motif, and surprise, their name was Wolff.
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    I believe that is either a Boar or a Bear's head, not a wolf Surp. If there's any Germanic influence in that crest it's unlikely to be a wolf as they were extinct in Germanyicon for virtually the entire 20th century and have only just started returning in the last quarter century. I have many German friends in Canadaicon, all avid hunters and they love to hunt hogs and bears.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sapper740 View Post
    I believe that is either a Boar or a Bear's head, not a wolf Surp. If there's any Germanic influence in that crest it's unlikely to be a wolf as they were extinct in Germanyicon for virtually the entire 20th century and have only just started returning in the last quarter century. I have many German friends in Canadaicon, all avid hunters and they love to hunt hogs and bears.
    Could be Sapper, but boar's heads almost always display tusks and I don't see any there. Nor was the artist a professional so more license than usual?

    Fairburn's Book of Crests or something close to that; it's on archive.org if you want to take a look. The second volume is just illustrations which are just numbered to the appropriate citations in the first volume, so a bit cumbersome.
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