ANST - Principality Arms Discussion

[Tim McDaniel]

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Tim Lozos <dentim at myriad.net> wrote:
> Maybe: "Quarterly or and argent, a lion rampant regardent
> ermine (maybe pean?), crowned and holding in its tail a
> laurel wreath gules, overall a mullet of 5 greater and 5
> lesser points issuant from base sable"

You have an ermine lion, thus white with black spots, on a
white background.  That's like the proverbial picture of
"three polar bears in a blizzard".

I generally advise against ermine or ermined tinctures
(pean, counter-ermine, erminois, X ermined Y) because lots
of ermine spots are an utter bitch and a half to sew.  Ask
Anna Stitcher about the banner she did for Baron Edwin of
the Steppes.  She believes that nobody should be allowed to
register ermine unless they submit with it a banner
certified as being sewn with their own hand.  If they want
it that bad -- fine.

I do not recall instances of an animal holding objects in
its tail.  Holding in its paw(s) is not uncommon.  Either
practice has a Laurel Sovereign of Arms precedent against
it.

Issuant from base is at best rare in period.

Daniel de Lincolia
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