[ANSTHRLD] Device 2

[doug bell]

Sable,
two rapiers inverted in pile conjoined at the points,
on a chief argent, three hearts gules.

Daniel is right that these are rapiers for blazoning, but swords is swords
for conflict purposes.  Conjoined at the points shows up in a search of the
blazons.

our field is sable
our primary charge is two swords argent
secondary chief argent
tertiary 3 hearts gules

we can ignore the tertiary for now
first focus on the swords
Sword - 2 - argent
scan them focusing on sable fields and ones with chiefs
Clear so far

then get the chief description for a complex search
Chief - Charged - Plain line - Argent - Above 2
As before it gives us two
Alfred of Chester
Vert, two rapiers in saltire proper, on a chief argent a dragon passant
vert.
CD for field, type and number to the tertiary, and should be one for change
in position of the swords.
Ealasaid nic Chlurain
Azure, two swords in saltire inverted proper, overall a swan naiant, on a
chief argent a thistle proper.
CD for field, add overall swan, change of type and number to tertiary.

ALL clear.

You can do just the complex search in this case but it is more through to
get search the primary group manually as well.  As good as the complex
search is it can miss something occasionally.

Magnus
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