[ANSTHRLD] Maintaining vs. Sustaining: New Question

[Tim McDaniel]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Bob Wade <logiosophia at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ordinaries (Fess, Chevron, Cross, Bend, Bend Sinister and Pale) and
> subordinaries (Bordure, Orle, Tressure, Chief, Pile, Base and Point)
> are partially defined by the shape of the field. If there is no
> field, then their shape can't be defined. As a reult, you can't
> have an ordinary or subordinary on a fieldless badge.

To be more precise, they can be "couped", or cut off.  A fieldless
badge cannot have an uncouped ordinary that would terminate at the
edge of the "shield".

Danihel "spay or coup your ordinaries" Lindicolinum
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com