[ANSTHRLD] Wherein Snorri Bangs his Head Against a Wall ...
Teceangl
tierna at agora.rdrop.com
Tue Feb 3 03:05:39 PST 2004
> Quoth Blaise de Cormeilles:
> > No, there is no "paly of three".
Requested Aryanhwy merch Catmael:
> Cite? (Not that I disagree, but this is relevant to a submission
> I'm commenting on in Northshield, which involves "per fess, a fess...)
Hmph. Let's see what I can find...
Pierced per bend sinister.] We do not tierce of three colors in this
fashion. Only tierced per pall and tierced per pall inverted are
allowed to be of three colors. WVS [57] [LoAR 30 Nov 81], p. 7
I nevre found a precedent banning the use of "tierced per fess/pale" but
I do note the term was dropped from use for fields after August 1981, and
that the August 1981 registration specified directly that the term meant
a specific ratio of tincture:
Richard Ravenglas the Pure
. Tierced per bend azure, Or, and argent, a cross flory sable.
NOTE: This means the bend Or takes up one-third of the diagonal
width of the shield. Please draw it that way.
After that the term "tierced per fess/pale" does not occur in the Ordinary
save for two instances of fieldless badges. I remember the October 1998
one, which was originally blazoned "On a skyrocket per fess gules and azure
a fess argent," if my memory is working correctly.
Most recently, the term was used because it was grandfathered:
[Tierced per chevron wavy throughout ...] ... the stylistic problems
are allowed under the Grandfather Clause. The general form of her
blazon, using the term tierced, has been held over from her previous
device as well. [Allison Poinvillars de Tours, 09/01, A-?thelmearc]
- Teceangl
--
This would give a headache to any herald who had to look at it long
enough to blazon it. (KFW, 11 Aug 77 [14], p. 6)
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