The mark alluded to is the famous one of two large B's on either side of a shield or scutcheon.
"The Tapestry Book"
Helen Churchill Candee
In Heinrich Heine he found a fitting poetical co-worker, in whose moods he seemed to see a perfect reflection of his own-Heine, in whom the bitterest irony was wedded to the deepest pathos, "the spoiled favorite of the Graces," "the knight with the laughing tear in his scutcheon"-Heine, whose songs are charged with the brightest light and deepest gloom of the human heart.
"The Great German Composers"
George T. Ferris
Underneath this mouldering tomb, With statue of stone, and scutcheon of brass, Slumbers a great lord of the village.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow