ANSTHRLD - Device Advice

Doug Bell debell at txcyber.com
Tue Jul 18 09:09:18 PDT 2000


>From the LoARs since 1996 it appears that flory-counterflory is
still registered as long as you stay away from Or and azure.
It is noted here that it is found in one example of period armory.
When checking conflicts be aware the SCA spells this flory, fleury
and any other way you can think of in blazons.

Magnus
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January 1999 LoAR 
Returns - CALONTIR
Ysabeau Lambert. Device. Or, an angel statant affronty azure maintaining
a
sword inverted proper and a chief flory counter-flory azure.
Unfortunately, 
the effect of the flory counter-flory line of division was to put three
gold 
fleur-de-lys on a blue chief, making it a chief of France. We do not
permit 
more than two gold fleurs on a blue background, since that is how 
augmentations of France were done in period. Using a different line of 
division, or a different tincture would fix this problem.

July 1999 LoAR
Acceptances - ATLANTIA
Arawina of Ravenhall. Badge. Purpure, a fess flory counter-flory Or.

May 1998 LoAR
Returns - MIDDLE
Cecily de Kenton. Device. Per bend sinister crusily flory
counter-crusily 
flory azure and Or.
This device has two problems, either of which, in and of itself, is 
grounds for return.  First, this is an invented field division, based on 
the model of flory-counterflory.  Unfortunately we have been able to
find 
but a single example of flory-counterflory being used in period armory.  
A line of division based on an exemplar that was used but a single time 
in period armory, is too far from period practice to be registered in
the 
SCA.
Secondly, this submission is being returned for unidentifiability. 
The line of division is unidentifiable from any distance.

Isabella Lucrezia Veneziano Martini January of 1997 (via An Tir):
Per bend sinister flory counterflory sable and argent, 
two fleurs-de-lys counterchanged.
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