Dunstable Swan Jewel
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The Dunstable Swan Jewel is a gold and enamel brooch in the form of a swan made in England or France in about 1400 and now in the British Museum, where it is on display in Room 40. The jewel was excav
The Dunstable Swan Jewel in the British Museum
The Wilton Diptych (c. 1395–99), showing Richard II and the angels wearing Richard's livery badge of the White Hart.
The white boar badge of Richard III as pendant to a Yorkist livery collar on the tomb monument of Sir Ralph Fitzherbert (died 1483) in Norbury, Derbyshire.
Livery collar
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A livery collar or chain of office is a collar or heavy chain, usually of gold, worn as insignia of office or a mark of fealty or other association in Europe from the Middle Ages onwards.
Sir Thomas More wearing the Collar of Esses, with the Tudor rose badge of Henry VIII, by Hans Holbein the Younger (1527)
Lt-Col. David Currie VC wearing a collar of esses in his role as Sergeant at Arms of the Canadian House of Commons.
Drawing of detail of mermaid collar of Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley (d. 1417), from his monumental brass at Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire
Susan Fennell, mayor of Brampton, Ontario, Canada from 2000 to 2014, pictured wearing a modern mayoral collar