An unusual design in a new grant which has just been put up on the College of Arms website :
According to York Herald's Twitter page, the "arms and crest allude to his successful stunt career including eleven James Bond films".
Corbould arms
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I like the 'concentric Gurges dancetty', but, feel the interlaced rolls of film a bit fussy!
However, I thought the spelling was 'gorges'?
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However, I thought the spelling was 'gorges'?
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To me it just looks like an explosion in a projection room.
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Yes, I thought the design might have been inspired by a comic-book 'sound effect' graphic - all it needs is POW! or WHAM! in the centre of the starburst. Quite appropriate for a stunt man. I wonder if the two curved strips of film represent his initials CC.Chris Green wrote:To me it just looks like an explosion in a projection room.
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The times are changing.
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Edward Hillenbrand wrote:The times are changing.
Or are the heralds themselves merely frustrated art students stuck in the psychedelic seventies !
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Perhaps Mr C has no heirs. If he has, they are saddled with arms that might have been created by Roy Lichtenstein.
Here's an interesting point: What would be the College of Arms' view were a future Corbould to seek a new grant of arms purely on the grounds of taste?
Here's an interesting point: What would be the College of Arms' view were a future Corbould to seek a new grant of arms purely on the grounds of taste?
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Chris Green wrote:Here's an interesting point: What would be the College of Arms' view were a future Corbould to seek a new grant of arms purely on the grounds of taste?
I would imagine that they would be delighted to receive a new commission. No one should be saddled with a coat of arms they don't like (there is always of course the option to deny that one is armigerous).
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(there is always of course the option to deny that one is armigerous).
I think they might have an inkling that a Corbould was related to an armigerous Corbould. Greens on the other hand would not be so easy to figure out.
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Interesting design! - though IMO it would be better without the loops of film, which IMO detract from the visual impact of the striking green & gold explosion.
Minor point - the wreath of three colors is unusual but nice; but the order of the three colors seems off. I would have expected Or, Vert and Argent, in that order - the principal metal, the principal color, and the next most prominent tincture; not Argent, Or snd Vert - the least prominent metal, the principal metal, and the principal color last. Both visually and in the blazon, the first and principal metal is Or - the entire field - not Argent, which is only the relatively minor strips of film.
Similarly, I would have expected the mantling to be Vert doubled Or rather than doubled Argent.
Not saying they are wrong - they are the KoA's after all - just unexpected.
(Oh horsefeathers - if anyone else had done it, we'd say it was wrong.)
Minor point - the wreath of three colors is unusual but nice; but the order of the three colors seems off. I would have expected Or, Vert and Argent, in that order - the principal metal, the principal color, and the next most prominent tincture; not Argent, Or snd Vert - the least prominent metal, the principal metal, and the principal color last. Both visually and in the blazon, the first and principal metal is Or - the entire field - not Argent, which is only the relatively minor strips of film.
Similarly, I would have expected the mantling to be Vert doubled Or rather than doubled Argent.
Not saying they are wrong - they are the KoA's after all - just unexpected.
(Oh horsefeathers - if anyone else had done it, we'd say it was wrong.)
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