ANSTHRLD - Device question

[Timothy A. McDaniel]

Another thing I forgot to note before: in period, if there was
one charge running asymmetrically loose on the field, it was far
more likely to be in chief or in dexter chief than in base.

"Kathleen O'Brien" <kobrien at bmc.com> wrote, anent
   http://users.arn.net/~avalon/rufus.htm
> If the top and bottom areas matched the left and right, the
> angles look right for:
>
>     Or, a saltire sable fimbriated sable.  
>
> (or is cotissed the right word for use with a saltire?)

"Fimbriated" means an ordinary that's joined to contrasting
stripes on each side.  "Cotised" means that the stripes are
separated by a chunk of field from the ordinary.  For
fimbriation, the ordinary has to have good contrast with the side
stripes (so "sable fimbriated sable" is right out); for cotising,
the ordinary instead has to have good contrast with the *field*
(since the stripes aren't snuggled up against it to defend it
against the field).  Thus, you're suggesting

    Or, a saltire cotised sable.

That's a useful and plausible suggestion.  In such a case, I'd
probably make the saltire a hair thicker and the cotising a
little thinner.

Daniel de Lincolia
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