[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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