[ANSTHRLD] Is the gore a peripheral or central ordinary?

[Tim McDaniel]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Jennifer Smith <jds at randomgang.com> wrote:
> I'm gonna be a touch heretical and suggest the Glossary is wrong in
> this instance. Gores and gussets, as far as I know, originated as
> so-called "marks of abatement", which is something you add to a coat
> of arms *last*. They can't be primary, by that definition.
>
> I suspect they're not mentioned in SENA just because they were
> forgotten. Silly wacky little ordinaries...

In fact, at one point in Da'ud's tenure, I think when he was working
on the field-primary revision, I read off to him each item from a list
of [sub]ordinaries (maybe from Brooke-Little?) that he hadn't listed
among the peripheral ordinaries and asked him whether each one in turn
needed to be included.  I suspect that that's how the gyron got onto
the list, and I vaguely recall arguing about canton vis a vis quarter.
"Let's not encourage gores and gussets" might have been his reasoning,
but you'd REALLY have to ask him.

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