[tirrigh-heralds] [antir-heralds] Irreverent blazons

[Colin]

I remember an April 1 Laurel Letter, things like Duncan Donat and the Arms
for Halfdan Iceday. The latter was Or 2 Bezants in chief above an
increscent,  I think the charges were somehow described as black but in a
proper healdise!

 

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Subject: Re: [tirrigh-heralds] [antir-heralds] Irreverent blazons

 


Or ...

 

A ceramic pitcher, charged with a winged serpent, and a goblet, charged with
castle.

 

A flagon with a dragon and a chalice with a palace.

 

 

uilliam
----- Original Message -----
From: Basil <BasilD at lavabit.com>
Date: Friday, June 4, 2010 4:04 pm
Subject: Re: [tirrigh-heralds] [antir-heralds] Irreverent blazons
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> Teceangl wrote:
> > 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'
> 
> Then there's:
> a large member of the deer family and a fowl and blazon it "a 
> moose 
> and a goose"
> 
> a caprine animal and a watercraft and blazon it "a goat and a boat"
> 
> a medium-sized stout-bodied Old World bird and a container of 
> powder 
> and shot and blazon it "a partridge and a cartridge"
> 
> a blood-sucking invertebrate and a fruit and blazon it "a leech 
> and a 
> peach"
> 
> a mustelid and a kitchen fixture and blazon it "a mink and a sink"
> 
> an insect and a floor covering and blazon it "a bug and a rug"
> 
> an ornamental shrub of the olive family and a three-footed 
> support and 
> blazon it "a privet and a trivet" If you added a smallish 
> carnivorous 
> mammal you could blazon it "a privet, a trivet, and a civet."
> 
> a bivalve and pig meat and blazon it "a clam and a ham". If you 
> added 
> a young sheep you could blazon it "a clam, a ham, and a lamb"
> 
> a large African antelope and a ruined castle and blazon it "a 
> gnu and 
> an old"
> 
> a ship without sails or masts and a Navajo house and blazon it 
> "a hulk 
> and a hogan"
> 
> 
> > 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.)
> 
> And I maintain you are delightfully irreverent! :-)
> 
> 
> -- 
> ~~Basil Dragonstrike
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