[ANSTHRLD] Ermined Or and Argent - is this still 'legal'

[Luciana Caterina di Borgese]

You are correct, obviously. I had misread/misunderstood it the first time I
read it. After that, when I was looking in my heraldry books (it just did
not sound right), it explained exactly what has been said here. Problem is,
I already had an image in my mind that was just not working with what I was
reading. Translation....I was being stupid. Fortunately, I have learned
something.

Thank you,
Luciana


On 10/17/06, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:
>
> I don't know how the echoed quote got out.  Sorry.
>
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Alden Drake wrote:
> > Are we taking of "<Insert Color Here> ermined Or and argent", so the
> > spots and tails alternate white and yellow?
> >
> > ... I've never seen [that] done.
>
> More than that: I've never seen alternating tinctures expressed that
> way.  Some field divisions or other phrases take two or more following
> tinctures, like "barry", "quarterly", "vairy", and such.  "Ermined" is
> not one of those cases: one tincture specification before the word,
> for the background, and one tincture after the word, for the tincture
> of the ermine spots.
>
> Daniel de Lincolia
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> Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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