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32123T.F.W.
7th Octr. 1904.
To the communication of the 1st of this month we reply, retuning the enclosure, that the coat of arms depicted thereon appears to enamate from a business office known as an armorialist's office, which for a consideration supplies every client with any form of coat of arms, selecting them arbitrarily from a book of escutcheons, merely taking care that the coat of arms in question agrees with the name of the person ordering it.
The one before us is the coat of arms illustrated in Siebmacher's Armorial Record, Vol. 5 page 244, No.1, belonging to a family of Berg which reside in the town of Notenburg.
Of course coats of arms granted or assumed in this way are entirely valueless, and do not justify armorial bearings. In German territory the unjustified use of the coat of arms of a nable family is prohibited by vol.16, chapter 9 of the General Laws.
The nobility of the family of the astronomer and writer Frans Christoph Berg appears doubtful at least, and so requires to be proved by documents showing the pedigree.
(Sd) The Royal Heraldry Office.
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