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Or, on a bend, gules, between two talbots heads erased sable three fleur-de-lis argent. Crest, a hautboy in pale. The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales comprising a register of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to present time. Sir John Bernard Burke

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Juniata Valley, Pennsylvania, published in 1897 records the following;

There is in the possession of Herbert Ashman, great-grandson of Col. George Ashman, at Three Springs, Huntingdon co, Pa., a looking -glass said to be over two hundred years old, on the frame of which is a double coat of arms, indicating the union of two families. One of these is the Ashman arms and corresponds with the following description taken from Burkes Armorial Bearings and Heraldry.

There is in the possession of Richard Ashman, Grandson of Col. George Ashman, at Three Springs, Huntingdon county, Pa., an old looking glass said to be two hundred years old, on the frame of which is a double coat of arms, indicating the union of two families. One of these is theses is the Ashman arms and corresponds with paintings possessed by different members of the family., The original painting from which copies were made is in the possession of George Ashman, of Phillipsburg, Centre county, Pa.

Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical Chiefly relating to Interior Pennsylvania, 1970 Reprint Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore. Originally published 1894 to 1896

The Looking-glass

 

The Ashman coat of Arms on the left is just as described in the Wiltshire Visitation of 1565, and in several publications written by Sir Bernard Burke.

The arms on the right can basically be describer as "a fesse between three escallops". The most likely names associated with this arms would be Dowsing, Canthorope, Adington, Bottel, Cooth, Brett, Saint low, Stanhill, or Pyland

 

According to Janice Vaske, the looking glass frame is about 20 inches square, the cherubs holding the family crests are about 8 inches tall. Janice is a 7th great-grand daughter of George Ashman. He came to Maryland about 1678.

Lillian Ashman, in a letter written May 28, 1940, writes the first George Ashman brought the mirror (looking-glass) to Maryland. She added that the mirror had two crests, the one with the cockleshells belonged to the family of an Ashman's wife.