Deal mayor Marlene Burnham said last month it was "heraldry gone mad".

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He is generously lending a manuscript in the hand of James Madison from 1783 documenting the financial support of Jewish financier and heralded patriot Haym Salomon, who died with notably less heraldry and even less money.

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