A heritage in eight chapters
From the first light of creation to the crusader's cross, every Posh Specter piece carries a symbol older than kingdoms. Scroll down to travel through the story behind them.
Raphael, Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan, 1518 · Musée du Louvre
Praying Hands: drawn in 1508 as a study of an apostle's hands for the Heller Altarpiece. Five centuries on, the same gesture of prayer sits on our dad hat.
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Eight chapters behind the symbols we wear. Keep scrolling to travel through them.
IGenesis 1
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
Every story we carry starts here: a Creator, an ordered world, and a people made in His image.
William Blake imagined that first act as the Ancient of Days, setting a compass upon the face of the deep — an image drawn from Proverbs 8:27.
IIGenesis 12 — Exodus 20
“I am the LORD thy God… Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
God calls Abraham out of his homeland and promises that through him all the families of the earth will be blessed.
Generations later Moses leads Israel out of Egypt and receives the Law on Mount Sinai. Rembrandt painted him in 1659, lifting the tablets above his head.
III27 BC — AD 313
“There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.”
Christ is born in the reign of Augustus and crucified under Pontius Pilate. From Jerusalem the faith travels the Roman roads to the capital itself.
For nearly three centuries Christians face waves of persecution. Jean-Léon Gérôme imagined believers at prayer in the arena.
IVAD 312
“Conquer by this.”
Before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, Constantine has his soldiers mark their shields with the Chi Rho — Χ and Ρ, the first two Greek letters of Christos.
He wins, and in 313 the Edict of Milan grants Christians freedom of worship across the empire.
Vc. AD 480 — 547
“Hearken, my son, to the precepts of the master, and incline the ear of thy heart.”
As the western empire falls apart, Benedict of Nursia founds the monastery of Monte Cassino around 529 and writes a short Rule for monks.
Its rhythm of prayer and work, later summed up as ora et labora, shapes monastic life in Europe for centuries to come.
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VIAD 1095 — 1291
“Deus vult! Deus vult!”
At the Council of Clermont in 1095, Pope Urban II calls the knights of Europe to aid the Christians of the East. Jerusalem falls to the crusaders on 15 July 1099.
The five-fold Jerusalem cross becomes the emblem of its kings — the cross on our crusader pieces today. Among those kings is Baldwin IV, who rules Jerusalem from 1174 to 1185, despite suffering from leprosy since childhood.
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VIIc. 1400 — 1600
Artists return to Scripture and the classical world with new eyes. Around 1490 Leonardo da Vinci draws his Vitruvian Man, the human figure measured against circle and square. In 1508 Dürer draws an apostle's hands folded in prayer; in 1513 he engraves a Christian knight riding on past Death and the Devil.
In 1518 Raphael paints Saint Michael casting Satan down. These are the images we carry forward.
VIIIToday
Posh Specter carries these symbols — Saint Benedict, the Jerusalem cross, Saint Michael, the praying hands — into everyday wear.
Not as costume, but as conviction.
