Pointed Silver

Some articles on silver, pointed silver:

Companions Of The Order Of The Bath - Habit and Insignia
... for England, thistles for Scotland and shamrocks for Ireland), connected by seventeen silver knots ... and Dames Grand Cross consists of a Maltese Cross on top of an eight-pointed silver star the star for military Knights and Dames Commander is an eight-pointed silver cross pattée ... The star for civil Knights and Dames Grand Cross consists of an eight-pointed silver star, without the Maltese cross the star for civil Knights and Dames Commander is an eight-pointed silver cross ...

Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or pointed:

    “Eftsoones the Nymphes, which now had Flowers their fill,
    Ran all in haste, to see that silver brood,
    As they came floating on the Christal Flood,”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)