[ANSTHRLD] RE: border, CD and crescent questions

[Sara L Friedemann]

Quoth "Bridget the Stargazer":
> Sure can ;) Let's see if I can get this right...per bend sinister argent and 
> purpure a compass star, in canton a decrescent moon, (all?) within a border 
> counterchanged. 

Generally, the 'all within' is superfluous - you can just go with "and".

> In plain words, that's a diagonal line from the right side 
> of the shield as you look at it dividing the field into white and purple, a 
> compass star with it's colors opposite to the field, a purple crescent moon 
> with points to the right in the upper left corner and a border around the 
> outer edge. the border's colors being opposite to the field's. Hope that's 
> not too muddled to make sense of.

The only correction I'd make to your blazon is to add a comma after
the field tincture:

"Per bend sinister argent and purpure, a compass star and in canton a
decrescent moon a bordure counterchanged."

Is your question then whether the bordure would overly the moon in 
canton?  It would not.

On a general style note, this doesn't bear much resemblance to medieval
armory, for a number of reasons:

1) Purpure was rare
2) Per bend sinister was rare
3) Counterchanging complex charges is even rarer
4) Compass stars are modern inventions
5) Bordures are overused in SCA armory

None of this is a bar to registration, but your client might be
interested to know how far removed from medieval heraldry this design
is.  Maybe the client might consider dropping the bordure, or going
with a standard heraldic mullet or estoile, or making the field
division 'per pale' or 'per fess'?  Any one of those, or all, would 
help.

-Aryanhwy




 
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