[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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