[ANSTHRLD] Charge question

[Edd Fryday]

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Muskets actualy have their origins in period times.  But the Musketeers as a
unit are post period.

Gassion
>From: "Haines, Paul"
>Reply-To: heralds at ansteorra.org
>To: "'heralds at ansteorra.org'"
>Subject: RE: [ANSTHRLD] Charge question
>Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 20:21:00 +0100
>
>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 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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