[ANSTHRLD] A question for the more experienced heralds, please

[tmcd at panix.com]

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Britt <tierna.britt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/9/07, Crandall <crandalltwo-scalists at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Enoch Crandall mac Cranon
> > The following badge associated with this name was
> > registered in August of 1989 (via Ansteorra):
> > Argent, a pile between two broadarrows gules,
> > overall a chevron counterchanged.
> >
> > Alexander Peregrine
> > The following device associated with this name
> > was registered in May of 1999 (via Ansteorra):
> > Argent, a pile gules and overall a chevron
> > counterchanged, in chief a fleur-de-lys argent.
>
...
> These armories have a primary charge and an overall charge.  In each
> case the primary is either the pile or the chevron, and the overall
> is the other one.  Since they're counterchanged across one another,
> for purposes of conflict both chevrons and piles must be checked as
> through they were the primary charge.

I think that a pile still has to be checked as "per chevron inverted".
Even that way, mind you, they're still clear (type and number of
secondaries alone is enough, without even discussing their tinctures).

> Doesn't look like it's related to me.

The motif of "Argent, a pile gules and overall a chevron
counterchanged, and fru-fru" is quite visually distinctive, regardless
of the point count.  If I submit something in purple with gold crosses
of Calatrava, you're probably not going to assume that I've never left
An Tir.

Danet Lincoln
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Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com