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Old 12th March 2019, 05:29 PM   #16
Jim McDougall
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Originally Posted by Edster
Agip/ENI Logo. It's actually a dog according to company site.


Thanks Ed. I think when we get into stylized animals in symbolic devices etc. it gets pretty hard to determine just what they actually are intended to represent. This looks like it has a mane.

I recall studying the mark of Toledo swordsmith Julian Del Rey from 17th c. which to me looked like a rampant lion. In colloquial terms (I think beginning from a reference in Cervantes) it began to be called the 'perillo' (=little dog).Possibly an allusion to the famed 'running wolf' of Passau on German blades.


I guess as per Rorschach its whatever each person perceives


Still dont get the six legs.
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