[ANSTHRLD] I have another client who is interested in a Quarterly field partition
Alden Drake
alden_drake at sbcglobal.net
Mon Oct 1 09:28:00 PDT 2007
Britt wrote:
>> In short since Azure is not an independent piece of armory then the device "Quarterly, sable and azure, per bend two sheaves of 5 arrows or" is not considered mashalling under da rules.
>>
>
> The azure portion is not a problem. The only plain tinctures the SCA
> protects are vert (flag of Libya) and ermine (Brittany). And there
> are several precedents about those, too.
>
> The sheaf of five arrows might be. I know a sheaf of three items has
> been ruled a 'single charge' at some point, but is a sheaf of five
> something a single charge, or an arrangement of five discrete charges?
> If the latter, then there's a problem. Laurel has rules that
> identical charges with more than one of the same per quarter had the
> appearance of marshaling. Therefore acceptability of this design
> hinges on whether or not a sheaf of five somethings is a single
> charge.
>
> I'll crawl around precedents in a few minutes and take a look; this
> information is presented for those who might get there before I do.
>
> - Teceangl
>
I don't think the count of items in a sheaf is a problem, so long as it
is "a sheaf" and not two or more sheafs.
Alden
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