[ANSTHRLD] A Mullet quarterly

[Joshua Brandl]

the idea was to incorporate the elements of my device into my badge... the device:   
Quarterly sable and argent, a cross quarterly argent and gules between four mullets of eight points pierced counterchanged.   
is currently up on ACE.  i was originally thinking about doing the initial mullet quarterly sable and argent but decided it looked to "busy" to mine own eye much less what anyone else thought, so i opted for a sable star... i really did like the reblazon of 
(fieldless) On a mullet of eight points sable a mullet of eight points quarterly argent and gules pierced

> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:05:51 -0400
> From: wreathherald at gmail.com
> To: heralds at lists.ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] A Mullet quarterly
> 
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Joseph Percer <jpercer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And it seems I did botch that blazon... try:
> >
> > (Fieldless) On a mullet of eight points sable, a mullet of eight
> > points quarterly argent and gules pierced.
> >
> 
> More to the original submitter than to Andrewe:
> 
> Is the thick black outline important? Could it be thinned until it is
> only the outline of the charge and still leave the client happy? That
> would give you "(Fieldless) On a mullet of eight points quarterly
> argent and gules, a gunstone" and there wouldn't be questions about
> layers or blazons.
> 
> If the black outline is important, I would definitely blazon the
> originally posted emblazon as "(Fieldless) On a mullet of eight points
> quarterly argent and gules fimbriated, a roundel sable." That both
> better describes what you're seeing here - the original image has too
> thin a sable band for most people to consider it a mullet charged with
> another - and it avoids violating the layer limit.
> 
>  - Istvan Lame Duck
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