Overall: 37cm (14.5in) x 41cm (16in)
Polychromed cast metal. Royal warrant holder’s appointment sign for Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (1900-2002) being the arms of Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, Empress of India from 1936-1952, granted in 1936 after the accession of her husband Albert, Duke of York as King George VI. The Queen continued to use the coat of arms as Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother until her death in 2002 - viz: The Royal arms, impaling, quarterly, First and Fourth, Argent, a lion rampant Azure armed and langued Gules within a double tressure flory counter-flory of the second (For Lyon); Second and Third, Ermine, three bows, strings palewise Proper (For Bowes), the whole surrounded by the Garter; for a Crest, the imperial crown Proper; for Supporters, dexter a lion rampant guardant Or, imperially crowned Proper, sinister, a lion per fess Or and Gules; in the compartment below the shield, with the Union rose, shamrock and thistle engrafted on the same stem.