[ANSTHRLD] shire devices
Alasdair MacEogan
alasdair at bmhanson.net
Fri Jun 12 12:08:20 PDT 2009
Tostig has a good point. Looking at the registered blazon assumes that the registered blazon matched the registered emblazon. Not always the case though I would recommend that if you ever find a mistake to bring it to the attention of the college so it can be remedied.
Alasdair
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Alasdair MacEogan <alasdair at bmhanson.net>
> Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] shire devices
> Sent: 12 Jun '09 13:59
>
> Childers, Jeff <Jeff.Childers at ttuhsc.edu> wrote:
>
> > There is a question about which direction the eagle SHOULD be facing for
> > our shire device here in adlershue. How do I go about finding this out?
>
> First stat with the OANDA to verify the blazon.
>
> Vert, an eagle displayed, wings inverted, within a laurel wreath and a base, all argent.
>
> Being that it is not specified thn the head is defaulted to facing dexter. Regaurdant would mean it is facing sinister. If you are interested there is quite a bit of stuff on eagles in Parker's Glossary of Terms
>
> http://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker/Jpglosse.htm
>
> You will find that dexter is the default for quite a bit in heraldry.
>
> Alasdair
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