Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Information Forms (hierarchy name)
5. information forms (objects)
6. document genres
7. [documents by function]
8. [identifying markings and symbols]
9. marks (identifying markings)
10. [marks by location or context]
11. watermarks
12. [watermarks by design type]

Anotations

Scope note:

Type of watermark known in many variations, comprising a fleur-de-lys in a shield, in use from 1600 through to the 19th century in papers made in Strasburg, Basle, Germany, the Netherlands, Britain, Scandinavia, Russia, and elsewhere.