[ANSTHRLD] Blazon help - William Killian

[Blaise de Cormeilles]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:04:39PM -0500, Wulfgar wrote, quoting Kathri:
>
> > Azure, in canton a mullet of four points argent charged with a goblet
> > sable within a bordure argent mullety of four points azure.
> >
> > Unless it's *really* important that there be 10 and only 10 stars on the
> > bordure, when it becomes:
> >
> > Azure, in canton a mullet of four points argent charged with a goblet
> > sable and on a  bordure argent ten mullets of four points azure.
> >
> > Either way, that bordure is very narrow to be carrying those stars.
> > Scootch the big star a little closer to the center to make room to make
> > the bordure thicker and the stars on it a little larger.  "Starving the
> > ordinaries" is a returnable offense. (In other words, if they are too
> > narrow / thin / small then they won't be registered.)

> I thought a canton was illegal?

A. Only a charged canton is reserved (for augmentations); a plain canton
is legal for anyone to register.

B. What Kathri describes is not a canton, but another charge (a mullet)
placed where a canton would go (instead of in the center of the field).

Blaise
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