[ANSTHRLD] SCA vs Mundane heraldry

[kevinkeary at aol.com]

I took "point dexter" to be a cant for 'poindexter'.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/poindexter

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Alasdair MacEogan <alasdair at bmhanson.net>
To: Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc. 
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Sent: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 4:18 pm
Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] SCA vs Mundane heraldry



Pretty much what I thought you were talking about (and I what Daniel 
described).
Now i just need to remember where I saw the discussion about points 
recently.  I
can't recall off the top of my head if it was on this list, the SCA 
list or in
commentary somewhere.

If i recall what I read correctly there was a discussion about whether 
or not
the point dexter or sinister were registerable.  There was mention that 
the
point dexter is mentioned as an abatement in several heraldic books, 
but no one
had any evidence of them actually being used in period.

For what it is worth, I would blazon the image Purpure, a dexter point 
raguly
argent.

Alasdair


>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Childers, Jeff <Jeff.Childers at ttuhsc.edu>
>  Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] SCA vs Mundane heraldry
>  Sent: 16 Oct '08 16:02
>
>  Sorry I should had made my own attempt to blazon it. Instead I just
>  changed the dancetty to raguly.... I knew that dancetty was wrong.
>
>  Purpure point dexter parted raguly argent.
>
>  http://ganglia.ttuhsc.edu/~jchilder/corner_dancetty.gif
>
>  Garreth
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