House brand and coat of arms
Within the family there was a house brand and a coat of arms. A house brand is an individual trademark that a family in Eastfrisia had to acquire according to the police decree of the so-called consortial ordinance from 1631, Count Ulrich II. According to this regulation, it was obligatory that, for example, all sacks of grain that were delivered to a mill or to the miller's house had to be marked with the name, brand and place of residence of the deliverer.
Spekker's house brand
This is the house brand of the Spekker family and was probably still in use around 1780. It adorned a box belonging to the family of the lineage from 1890. A house brand could be inherited, but was only taken over unchanged by the farm heirs. The remaining siblings added a dash to the mark, modified one, or omitted one. This is also the biggest difference to the coat of arms, since these were mostly adopted unchanged by all descendants. In later years, the practice of house brands became less and less common and house brands disappeared from the goods as well as from the document system. The brand was hardly changed from now on and was often set in a shield image, which is to be understood as a reference to the coat of arms. The individual house brand became a clan sign and was used as an ornament at best.
Spekker Coat of Arms
This is the coat of arms of the Vellage branch of Spekker.
