[ANSTHRLD] Please help with this device

[Haines, Paul]

Dejavu - I originally helped this submitter at Gate's Edge's Midsummer Fair.

Quarterly vert and argent in pale a barrel proper and two barley stalks in
saltire Or.

I'd be a little concerned about the gold barley on the white quarter, but it
should be ok as the quartered field of a metal and a color is considered
neutral.  As for the black band on the barrel, that's just an artistic
license I think.  A barrel proper would be brown (wood), but the metal
banding isn't a major component of the design, so while it could be drawn
on, it could be just as easily colored brown too.  The major element of the
barrel is the shape - (_).  I vaguely recall a device that was "Per pale
argent and sable a lightning bolt bendwise sinister Or" and when I
questioned the gold lightning on the white side of the field I was given a
similar explanation of why it was ok.

I think you could also tincture the barley as proper (as opposed to Or) and
it'd still be a golden color, but it would simplify the blazon a bit to be:
Quarterly vert and argent in pale a barrel and two barley stalks in saltire
proper.

In service,
Alden


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> From:	Bridgid of Kincairn [SMTP:bridgid at zamigo.net]
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> Greetings everyone,
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> I have a question about a device. Below is a very crude computer and mouse
> drawn picture of the device. The blazon to the best of my ability is:
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>     Vert and Agent quarterly, a barrel ermine (brown) with two barley
> stalks crossed beneath the barrel Or.
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> I know that is not a very heraldic blazon, but at the moment that is the
> best I could do. Please help me with the correct blazoning.
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> I do have a concern about the gold barley on the white quarter and the
> black band on the brown barrel. Am I correct in thinking that the barrel
> is exempted from the black-on-brown rule because this is it's natural
> coloring?
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> Thank you for any and all help you can give me regarding this blazon.
> Lady Bridgid of Kincairn
> Herald StoneBridge Keep
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