The logo of a Court Supplier on a letterhead – Using the double-headed eagle for advertising purposes

The Imperial-Royal Court Suppliers were allowed to display the ‘Highest Coat of Arms’ on their businesses and to print it on their writing paper. However, what was meant by ‘Highest Coat of Arms’ was by no means clear: for the Hungarian Court Suppliers the highest emblem was the Hungarian coat of arms, while for the Austrian Court Suppliers it was the double-headed eagle. Despite repeated enquiries to the Office of the Obersthofmeister the problem was still unsolved when the Monarchy collapsed in 1918.