[ANSTHRLD] Help please - Conflict check for "Gyronny sable and Or, a wolf rampant holding a key azure"
Alasdair MacEogan
alasdair at bmhanson.net
Thu Apr 19 10:58:05 PDT 2007
Robert Wade <logiosophia at yahoo.com> wrote:
> (Do you have your PicDic handy to double check me on this, Daniel?) I believe the default posture for keys is the way you emblazoned them (using the "business end to chief" rule of thumb. Otherwise they would be blazoned as "palewise".
I am not Daniel but according to Table 4 in the CoA Glossary. http://www.sca.org/heraldry/coagloss.html#default
The default for keys is:
Fesswise, wards to dexter and facing downwards; when palewise, must be specified (wards to chief or wards to base)
Alasdair
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