[tirrigh-heralds] Dimidiation question

[Anthony Hawke, GdS]

On 6/6/2013 8:21 PM, Basil wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't dimidiation be treated  the same (for all intents and
>> purposes) as marshalling?  It was an earlier form of the practise,
>> after all.
>
> Consider, for example:
> http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7432/8956996946_6a5ca61902_o.jpg
>
> That could not be impaled, but it could be dimidiated. Now consider 
> SENA A.6.F.1.c and A.6.F.3.c. These say that having a charge or 
> charges straddle the palar line removes the appearance of marshalling.
>
> This looks like dimidiation is being ignored, but I wonder if that's 
> the intention.

I don't see your example as dimidiation -- it is a counterchange, plain 
and simple.  I would assume dimidiation if the 'charge' that is bisected 
by the pale line is the left half of one charge and the right half of a 
different charge.  A good example are the Arms of Hastings 
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Hastings_Emblem_Vectorized.svg) 
where you see two lions passant regardant each dimidiated with a hulk.

I still believe that marshalling, impaling and dimidiation are all the 
same thing, just done in different eras and cultures -- and therefore 
must be treated the same.

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Lord Anthony Hawke; GdS, AA, WOAW
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