Old postbox dating from the Dutch colonial period of Paramaribo, Suriname, South America

Red pillar-Box , Tetbury, England

Crest on Royal Palace Gates, Muscat, Oman

View of one of the two noon guns at Lion Battery on Signal Hill in Cape Town. The daily noon gun is Cape Town’s oldest living tradition and the two cannons used are the oldest guns in daily use in the world. They have marked the midday hour in the mother city in this distinctive, albeit noisy manner since early 1806. The cannons were cast in Britain in 1794 and still bear the royal crest of King George the third. The firing of the cannon was originally to give ships in the bay a means of re-setting their clocks accurately.

Chief Petty Officer Dudley Malgas using a wooden ram rod to push the charge into the muzzle of the noon gun cannon in Cape Town. The daily noon gun is Cape Town’s oldest living tradition and the two cannons used are the oldest guns in daily use in the world. They have marked the midday hour in the mother city in this distinctive, albeit noisy manner since early 1806. The cannons were cast in Britain in 1794 and still bear the royal crest of King George the third. The firing of the cannon was originally to give ships in the bay a means of re-setting their clocks accurately.

Chief Petty Officer Dudley Malgas of the South African Navy posing alongside the noon gun cannon in Cape Town. CPO Malgas has been in charge of firing the canon since 1995. The daily noon gun is Cape Town’s oldest living tradition and the two cannons used are the oldest guns in daily use in the world. They have marked the midday hour in the mother city in this distinctive, albeit noisy manner since early 1806. The cannons were cast in Britain in 1794 and still bear the royal crest of King George the third. The firing of the cannon was originally to give ships in the bay a means of re-setting their clocks accurately.

The noon gun firing in Cape Town. The daily noon gun is Cape Town’s oldest living tradition and the two cannons used are the oldest guns in daily use in the world. They have marked the midday hour in the mother city in this distinctive, albeit noisy manner since early 1806. The cannons were cast in Britain in 1794 and still bear the royal crest of King George the third. The firing of the cannon was originally to give ships in the bay a means of re-setting their clocks accurately.

The gates to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, UNESCO World Heritage Site, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Royal emblem of Oman, Al Alam Palace of Sultan Qaboos, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, Arabia, Middle East

Royal coat of arms and logo of the old Hof Apotheke pharmacy, Sofienstrasse 11, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Coat of arms, Palacio Real de la Magdalena, Royal Palace, university buildings, Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo, Santander, Cantabria, Spain, Europe

House and royal coats of arms of the old Hof Apotheke, Sofienstrasse 11, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Facade of the city hall, 16th century, with the Bavarian royal coat of arms, 1806, Burghausen, Upper Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Hawaii, Big Island, Kailua-Kona, Kona Seaside Hotel, Hawaiian quilt with flag and royal crest design.