Cheesman and Rennie

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Isaac M Schneider
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Re: Cheesman and Rennie

Postby Isaac M Schneider » 08 Apr 2018, 11:12

Interesting discussion, both in terms of design terminology and in the comparison of such strikingly similar arms. Would be interesting to see more like these..
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Re: Cheesman and Rennie

Postby Kurt Alex » 12 Jul 2018, 23:37

Better late than never

Perhaps not absolutely identical, but there are similarities. The "von Nimitz" family was relatively minor nobility (untitled) in Silesia and became extinct in the male line with Christopher von Nimitz in 1640 according to the information here (in German and Fraktur font just to make it interesting). No antennas in those days. :lol:

https://books.google.com/books?id=WZIaA ... tz&f=false


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Re: Cheesman and Rennie

Postby Kurt Alex » 20 Jul 2018, 17:01

I trust that the personnel responsible for checking the uniqueness of the arms to avoid duplication at least found this one for the following family

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrian-Werburg

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Re: Cheesman and Rennie

Postby Chris Green » 20 Jul 2018, 19:33

I wonder just how much international checking is carried out. In earlier centuries none or precious little. Cheesman's arms were College of Arms, Rennie's Canadian Heraldic Authority and Andrian-Werburg who knows?
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Re: Cheesman and Rennie

Postby Jeremy Fox » 21 Jul 2018, 08:47

"Uniqueness" has always been (and can only be) local, i.e. within one nation, rather than international. The Scrope/Carminow decision showed that, for the sake of a peaceful solution, the heralds were even happy to allow duplication within the jurisdiction of one heraldic authority. Scrope, they said, were to use "azure a bend or" in England, but Carminow could use the same arms in the invented-for-the-purpose Kingdom of Cornwall.

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Re: Cheesman and Rennie

Postby Arthur Radburn » 21 Jul 2018, 15:14

According to Wikipedia, the Andrian-Werburg arms are blazoned as "Im Deichselschnitt", which means "tierced per pall".

No conflict among the three arms, because the colours are different in each case.
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Re: Cheesman and Rennie

Postby Kurt Alex » 21 Jul 2018, 21:13

Adding per pile to the per pale, per pall and going from there leads to a few interesting dividions of the field

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I wonder if any are/were actually used by a family somewhere?

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Re: Cheesman and Rennie

Postby Iain Boyd » 22 Jul 2018, 01:32

Re the arms of Andrian-Werburg -

If one goes to the wikipedia article Kurt included with his post there is a copy of a bookplate of Freiherren von Andrian-Werburg dated 1692 - see below.

Andrian-Werburg - Bookplate.jpg


The arms surtout are different from those at the top of the article, but, obviously developed from arms in the bookplate.

Are the arms the same - I think not.

Are the arms at the top of the article a legitimate development of the arms in the bookplate - possibly.

Are the arms at the top of the article correctly those of the current family - probably not.

Unfortunately, I have no means at the moment to verify whether the arms of the family have been changed.

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Re: Cheesman and Rennie

Postby Chris Green » 22 Jul 2018, 08:16

PS to the Moderators - If the included image is too big or not otherwise suitable please remove or, preferably, adjust. This is the first image I have added to a posting and I am sure I still have much to learn. IWB


It is big, but had it been smaller we might not have been able to see the detail.
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Re: Cheesman and Rennie

Postby Michael F. McCartney » 22 Jul 2018, 09:21

I respectfully disagree with Jeremy Fox that arms "can only be unique locally." Clearly that was the case in the past, as far back as Bartolus and for the reasons he cited; but the world has changed even if the official heralds still generally operate as if nothing significant has changed.

In a world increasingly characterized by relatively easy and affordable international travel, by immigration and resulting multiculturalism in many parts of the world (Europe & the EU, the American "melting pot", Canada, Spain & Latin America, Portugal & Brazil, etc.), and of course the Internet, that old tradition of isolated jurisdictions - and in most of the world, the very notion of regulated heraldic jurisdictions - is seriously out of date.

Otherwise, it would be perfectly appropriate for folks assuming arms in any country to just drop by the library, or surf the Net, and assume for themselves whatever published arms in other "jurisdictions" that happen to appeal to them that haven't already been appropriated by one of their own countrymen. I rather fancy a nice combination of leopards, tressured lions, and a harp... Welcome to Heraldry Mill heaven!

Instead, we urge/insist that those designing new arms make a bona fide, good faith effort to ensure that the new arms are unique insofar as practicable. And given access to published collections, in print and online, that good faith effort is not limited by notions of "jurisdiction". Infringement is infringement (just as plagiarism is plagiarism re: academic and scientific work), whether the existing arms (or published research) are Swedish, Scottish, South African, Slovenian, Swiss etc. so long as they have been published in a reasonably accessible manner.
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