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

[Mistress Bronwen]

Hmmm...well since  the azure half of the field could not be Mullety sable, I'd 
guess at "Per pale argent mullety sable and azure mullety <argent/Or>, a lion 
gules"
~

Bronwen

"A Peerage relationship, therefore, is not just "Pelican to cleanup on aisle
nine - ego spill"...Tibor of Rock Valley

"Quod Excogitem Sum"..."I Am What I Can Imagine"
[Per pale sable and argent, an antelope statant and in chief a pearled coronet 
counterchanged]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tmcd at panix.com>
To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." 
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Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Ermined Or and Argent - is this still 'legal'


> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, debell1 at txcyber.com <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org> wrote:
>> Another confusing area is when half the field has a semy of charges
>> and the other half doesn't.
>
> For some reason, I've never managed to remember how strewn charges get
> blazoned on a divided field.  I think that a strewn charge is
> considered to be on everything on the same level before it, but I'm
> not sure, and I'm not sure how you could blazon an uncharged field
> first.  That is, "Per pale argent mulletty sable and azure, a lion
> gules" is unambiguous (the dexter half is mulletty, the sinister half
> is uncharged), but I'm not sure how to blazon both sides being
> mulletty versus how to blazon only the sinister side being mulletty.
>
>> Tricky blazons like this are hard to read at first:
>> "Per fess gules and azure, mullety, in chief a lion argent."
>
> In 1/06, this was registered:
>
>  Morgan of Atlantia. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name).
>  Per bend sinister argent and vert mulletty counterchanged.
>
> The emblazon shows that the whole field was mulletty, as the
> "counterchanged" implies.
>
> Denyel de Linccolne
> -- 
> Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com
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