Notched on the walnut stock of his favorite weapon, the work of Henry Barner, a wayside Sugar Valley gunsmith, were seven sets of minute carvings in the form of collar Insignias in all the grades from a Lieutenant General to a Lieutenant Colonel.
"A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks""
Henry W. Shoemaker
Come and see us tomorrow after vespers, we will give you the Insignias of your office in the presence of our chapter, and then ...
"Letters from my Windmill"
Alphonse Daudet
The other, who looked somewhat older and less robust, wore a head-piece of beaver ornamented with the horns of a bull buffalo, while his dress and Insignias proclaimed him a medicine-man.
"White Otter"
Elmer Russell Gregor