Family Crest & Signet Rings for the UK
Britain invented the signet tradition we work in - and British customers keep finding us anyway, because we build these rings the way the old ones were built: cast solid, heavy in the hand, the crest raised in the gold. Here's how it works from the UK, and the honest answer to the question British buyers ask most.
No family arms? In England, that's most people - and it's not a dead end
English heraldry is the strictest in the world: arms are granted by the College of Arms to an individual and his direct line, which means the "family crest" attached to your surname online almost certainly belongs to someone else's branch. Most British families have no granted arms at all. The traditional answers to that are older than the problem:
A monogram or cypher. The classic British signet face for centuries - initials interlaced and engraved deep. No claim made, nothing to disprove, entirely yours.
A crest designed from scratch. Built from the place your family is from, the trade it carried, the values it keeps - it's most of what we do, and a crest designed this year is exactly as real as one granted in 1626 was on the day it was drawn.
Your documented arms, redrawn properly. If your family does carry arms - Burke's, the College of Arms records - we redraw them faithfully for the face of a ring. Our guide to researching your family's coat of arms shows how to check before you commit anything to gold.
Or a plain polished face - worn blank for years, engraved when the right mark finds you. Many of our customers start exactly there.
Why order a signet from Australia
Three reasons British buyers give us. The weight: our signets run 12-30 grams of solid gold depending on carat and shape - the old heirloom standard, not the hollowed modern one. The design work: crest research and design are part of the commission, not a priced extra. And the honest one - the exchange rate: prices are in Australian dollars, so the sticker works out to roughly half in pounds. Our work has been seen in Tatler, GQ and British GQ.
How it works from the UK
Start with whatever you have - a photograph of a grandfather's ring, a bookplate, or just your surname. Research happens over email, calls with our founder book neatly into your morning - our evening, with the time difference working for once - and you approve a photorealistic 3D render of your exact ring before anything is cast. Give us your UK letter size - we work in all the systems. Finished rings ship by DHL Express, fully insured and tracked.
Built the old way
Every ring is cast solid - 9ct, 14ct or 18ct gold in yellow, white or rose, platinum and silver available. 9ct, the standard of much fine British jewellery, is the hardest-wearing of the three; the full comparison is in our honest guide to 9ct, 14ct and 18ct. The crest can be laser engraved or cast directly into the gold in relief, so it can never wear off, and every ring carries our lifetime craftsmanship guarantee. If you're marrying, some grooms wear the signet as the wedding ring - an older practice than the plain band.
The best way to judge us is the work: read the stories behind our crest rings, see the 7 rules of a crest ring, or book a 15-minute call - bring your surname and we'll tell you honestly what the records hold, and what to put on the face if they hold nothing.
