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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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!</span></font></p>
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
collegeofheralds-bounces@tirrigh.org
[mailto:collegeofheralds-bounces@tirrigh.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Mark Hood<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> June-04-10 4:16 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Basil<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> summits-heralds@antir.sca.org;
avacal_heralds@yahoogroups.com; An Tir Heralds; Tir Righ Heralds<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [tirrigh-heralds]
[antir-heralds] Irreverent blazons</span></font></p>
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charged with a winged serpent, and a goblet, charged with castle.</span></font></p>
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and a chalice with a palace.</span></font></p>
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----- Original Message -----<br>
From: Basil <BasilD@lavabit.com><br>
Date: Friday, June 4, 2010 4:04 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [tirrigh-heralds] [antir-heralds] Irreverent blazons<br>
To: An Tir Heralds <antir-heralds@antir.sca.org><br>
Cc: summits-heralds@antir.sca.org, avacal_heralds@yahoogroups.com, Tir Righ
Heralds <collegeofheralds@tirrigh.org><br>
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> Teceangl wrote:<br>
> > It's late and I've been sloughing through heraldry and words <br>
> too long.<br>
> > My brain wandered off and got into trouble when I <br>
> wasn't paying<br>
> > attention.<br>
> ><br>
> > The motif of 'per bend, an X and a Y' is seen in late period German<br>
> > armory (reference Johann Siebmachers Wappenbuch von 1605, <br>
> linked from<br>
> > http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/german.shtml ). 'Per <br>
> fess, an X and<br>
> > a Y' is also seen in German heraldry, and occasionally <br>
> English. (Note<br>
> > that charges around an ordinary in period appear to have <br>
> always been<br>
> > of the same type.)<br>
> ><br>
> > So.... Does that mean you could have:<br>
> > a star and a chicken and blazon it 'a mullet and a pullet'<br>
> > a vertical stripe and a wooden hammer and blazon it 'a pallet <br>
> and a mallet'<br>
> > a cup and an ornate castle and blazon it 'a chalice and a palace'<br>
> > a stone and a means of securing a door and blazon it 'a rock <br>
> and a lock'<br>
> > a transport vehicle and a fire-breathing monster and blazon it 'a<br>
> > wagon and a dragon'<br>
> > a domestic canine and a toothed wheel and blazon it 'a dog and <br>
> a cog'<br>
> > a pair of hosen and a small wild canid and blazon it 'socks <br>
> and a fox'<br>
> > a piece of footgear and a musical instrument and blazon it 'a <br>
> boot and a lute'<br>
> > a gaming cube and a sight organ and blazon it 'a die and an eye'<br>
> > a solar entity and a wine cask and blazon it 'a sun and a tun'<br>
> <br>
> Then there's:<br>
> a large member of the deer family and a fowl and blazon it "a <br>
> moose <br>
> and a goose"<br>
> <br>
> a caprine animal and a watercraft and blazon it "a goat and a
boat"<br>
> <br>
> a medium-sized stout-bodied Old World bird and a container of <br>
> powder <br>
> and shot and blazon it "a partridge and a cartridge"<br>
> <br>
> a blood-sucking invertebrate and a fruit and blazon it "a leech <br>
> and a <br>
> peach"<br>
> <br>
> a mustelid and a kitchen fixture and blazon it "a mink and a
sink"<br>
> <br>
> an insect and a floor covering and blazon it "a bug and a rug"<br>
> <br>
> an ornamental shrub of the olive family and a three-footed <br>
> support and <br>
> blazon it "a privet and a trivet" If you added a smallish <br>
> carnivorous <br>
> mammal you could blazon it "a privet, a trivet, and a civet."<br>
> <br>
> a bivalve and pig meat and blazon it "a clam and a ham". If you <br>
> added <br>
> a young sheep you could blazon it "a clam, a ham, and a lamb"<br>
> <br>
> a large African antelope and a ruined castle and blazon it "a <br>
> gnu and <br>
> an old"<br>
> <br>
> a ship without sails or masts and a Navajo house and blazon it <br>
> "a hulk <br>
> and a hogan"<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> > For that matter, if a default crane in its vigilance <br>
> maintained a<br>
> > rock, and a default roc maintains an elephant, and a default <br>
> elephant> maintains a castle on its back, could you register 'a crane<br>
> > maintaining a roc maintaining an elephant maintaining a castle'?<br>
> > Would you want to? (Blame this one on Daniel de Lincoln; <br>
> I 'borrowed'<br>
> > it from him.)<br>
> <br>
> And I maintain you are delightfully irreverent! :-)<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
> ~~Basil Dragonstrike<br>
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