[ANSTHRLD] Charge question

James Henry rosemusketeer at lycos.com
Tue Mar 4 11:45:07 PST 2003


I understand that they are post period but there are sources that put them at the very end of our period  (late 1500's) I have seen this cross in several movies but also in heraldry books I just can't remember which one at this time...

Seamus
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 20:21:00
 Haines, Paul wrote:
>I'd also be careful of using the French musketeers as a source, as they may
>be post-SCA period.  Afterall, they were called (musket)eers for a reason.
>:)  Silly French *Duck's tartes thrown by the Lurking Laurel*
>
>Alden
>
>*snip*
>> Serena here:  The cross variation you describe does not appear in
>> Brooke-Little *An Heraldic Alphabet*, Friar's *Dictionary of Heraldry*, or
>> Woodcock & Robinson *Oxford Guide to Heraldry*, nor is it listed among the
>> six pages of SCA cross variations in my first-edition copy of Master
>> Bruce's *A Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry as used in the SCA*.  In fact,
>> the only place I can find it is on the tabards worn by the musketeers in
>> the Disney "Three Musketeers" movie made a few years back.
>*snip*
>
>*snip*
>>  James Henry <rosemusketeer at lycos.com> wrote:I am looking for a blazonry
>> description of the "musketeer's cross". It is Fleuritee but it also has
>> fleur points at the conjuctions of the cross you know where the arms
>> meet...could any one help me?
>*snip*
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