ANSTHRLD - Cahira's Device

[Timothy A. McDaniel]

I've thought of a few ideas for Cahira.  These tickle *my* interest in
simple geometrics and assymmetric armory; I'll be interested to learn
what she thinks of them.  I have not conflict-checked these.

Field-only:

Barry sable and vairy purpure and Or.  This avoids sable-and-Or, uses
the most common period field of "barry" (most common for field-only in
early Anglo-Norman armory, I should say), and is moderately simple
except for the effort in doing "vairy".

Geometric charges:

Or, a bar engrailed purpure and another sable.  (Or the reverse.)  I
added "engrailed" because of the odds that a plain version would
conflict.  You do occasionally see charge groups with disparate colors
in period.

Or, two bars purpure and a canton / quarter sable.  A quarter would
tend to extend over the uppermost bar; a canton would touch only or
not even extend to it.

Or, in bend two <widgets> purpure and in bend sinister two more sable.
This is based on the arms of Antwerp, I think, where the "widgets" are
lions and the tinctures are gules and sable.  this is another period
case of disparate colors.  For "widgets", use something simple:
roundels (filled disks), annulets (rings), lozenges ("diamonds", as on
playing cards), mascles (lozenges with a lozenge-shaped hole in the
middle), rustres (lozenges with a round hole in their centers),
crosses (quite common in period, as were annulets and mascles), delfs
(squares), and other possibilities I've doubtless forgotten.

Daniel de Lincolia
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