Embossed crests and stamps on herbarium specimens provide a rich secondary data source. Secondary data like this forms an important part of the provenance of specimens that is often not directly transcribed. (A) Lion and crown signifying ownership by the botanical garden of Brussels, as found on specimen BR0000013433048 of Meise Botanic Garden Herbarium. (F) Stamp with handwriting is evidence of a loan from the national botanical garden of Belgium to the herbarium of Paris (Herbarium