Can anyone help me identify this? It’s on stickers around Manchester (England). This sort of thing is usually the work of visiting football fans, but I can’t find this one on a google image search.
Who’s visiting? It’s like a cross between a dolphin and a koi fish?
Heraldry symbols. Scroll to the "D"s for dolphin
Not a perfect match but hopefully it leads somewhere.
St Etienne were playing Manchester United last night, but it doesn’t look like one of theirs.
Looks close enough to me. Heraldry is awfully inexact. I’ve definitely seen different versions of a coat of arms that look more different than your pic and the OP.
I think it’s that crazy rhyming slang thing.
Funny fish rhymes with sunny dish, so it’s referencing potato salad.
It does look like a heraldic dolphin.
As to its significance here, perhaps it could be related to the opening of a new nightclub? From the University of Manchester Students’ Union’s website, dated 7th February 2017:
It most certainly does. Blazoned, that sticker would be “gules, a dolphin hauriant or”. Googling that phrase turns up a few hits in SCA-land, but nothing that I can associate with a real grant of arms.
The “Dolphin Warehouse” angle seems weird, but who knows?
The Dolphin Warehouse is apparently an underground club, which kind of fits with the cryptic nature of the posting. And nothing I’ve dug up with Google indicates that the heraldic dolphin is connected to Manchester at all in any kind of official way.