old genealogy board had a thread on the Shugborough O U O S V A V V letters, copying it here

lifting this from a genealogy/local-history forum that's read-only now, no new posts allowed, so reposting in case it goes fully dark. the Shugborough monument is a stone relief at an estate in Staffordshire, 1700s, on the Anson family land. it's a carved copy of a Poussin painting (the Arcadian she……