[ANSTHRLD] Introduction and Conflict Check

[Tim McDaniel]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Fulco of Scarborough <fulco at fulco.net> wrote:
> A black field with a silver fret in the center with two swords
> crossed in the center (in their natural color).

OK, silver is "argent", not "gules".

A little more detail, please: you have swords crossing in the center
and you have a fret (which I drew before in ASCII art), which has an
X, which is also in the center.  Are the swords lying exactly over
that X, or crossing offset some, or what?

I'm afraid I don't see how that can really work visually -- you are
talking about a fret as discussed at
<http://www002.upp.so-net.ne.jp/saitou/parker/jpglossf.htm#Fret>
-- the first occurrence of that word, that starts "a charge consisting
of two narrow bendlets placed in saltire, and interlaced with a
mascle", and shown at
<http://www.geocities.co.jp/Milano/7193/gif/m275a.gif>?

You wouldn't happen to have a scanner and a Web page where you could
sketch it and put it on the Web where we could see it?  Or maybe use
Microsoft Paint or some other image program to sketch it crudely?

Daniel de Lincolia
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