A McFaddin-Ward House Visitor Center exhibit brochure from 2007-2008. The nature and use of monograms are studied and examples from the McFaddin and Ward families are shown. Cattle brands are mentioned also as monograms for security!

1. What’s a Strictly speaking, a monogram That’s Mine
signet ring? is a design composed of two or Ciphers Monograms
more letters, interwoven or from the
joined, in which one letter forms
Monograms for centuries had been used by part of another and the overall
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merchants and artists to identify their work, design cannot easily be Dec 1, 2007—April 7, 2008
because only royalty and aristocrats could separated. One of the oldest and
use heraldic devices or ident