[tirrigh-heralds] Irreverent blazons

[Teceangl]

It's late and I've been sloughing through heraldry and words too long.
 My brain wandered off and got into trouble when I wasn't paying
attention.

The motif of 'per bend, an X and a Y' is seen in late period German
armory (reference Johann Siebmachers Wappenbuch von 1605, linked from
http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/german.shtml ).  'Per fess, an X and
a Y' is also seen in German heraldry, and occasionally English.  (Note
that charges around an ordinary in period appear to have always been
of the same type.)

So....  Does that mean you could have:
a star and a chicken and blazon it 'a mullet and a pullet'
a vertical stripe and a wooden hammer and blazon it 'a pallet and a mallet'
a cup and an ornate castle and blazon it 'a chalice and a palace'
a stone and a means of securing a door and blazon it 'a rock and a lock'
a transport vehicle and a fire-breathing monster and blazon it 'a
wagon and a dragon'
a domestic canine and a toothed wheel and blazon it 'a dog and a cog'
a pair of hosen and a small wild canid and blazon it 'socks and a fox'
a piece of footgear and a musical instrument and blazon it 'a boot and a lute'
a gaming cube and a sight organ and blazon it 'a die and an eye'
a solar entity and a wine cask and blazon it 'a sun and a tun'

For that matter, if a default crane in its vigilance maintained a
rock, and a default roc maintains an elephant, and a default elephant
maintains a castle on its back, could you register 'a crane
maintaining a roc maintaining an elephant maintaining a castle'?
Would you want to?  (Blame this one on Daniel de Lincoln; I 'borrowed'
it from him.)

Back to the grindstone,

- Teceangl
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