Iain Boyd wrote:I am sure that the members of the HSofS forum would be interested in this collection. Will I leave it to you to make a posting, Arthur?
Good idea, Iain. I have done so.
Iain Boyd wrote:I am sure that the members of the HSofS forum would be interested in this collection. Will I leave it to you to make a posting, Arthur?
JMcMillan wrote:Snip.
What's even more awful is that the heralds rationalized the tincture violation not with the straightforward approach of describing the chief as "cousu" but by pretending that the partition is "per fess enhanced!"
Snip.
Chas Charles-Dunne wrote:JMcMillan wrote:Snip.
What's even more awful is that the heralds rationalized the tincture violation not with the straightforward approach of describing the chief as "cousu" but by pretending that the partition is "per fess enhanced!"
Snip.
Can you please point to the exact spot where this supposed tincture violation is taking place.
Thank you.
JMcMillan wrote:Chas Charles-Dunne wrote:JMcMillan wrote:Snip.
What's even more awful is that the heralds rationalized the tincture violation not with the straightforward approach of describing the chief as "cousu" but by pretending that the partition is "per fess enhanced!"
Snip.
Can you please point to the exact spot where this supposed tincture violation is taking place.
Thank you.
Certainly. An azure (or possibly bleu celeste) chief on a purpure field. The evasion of the rule is achieved by defining the shield as parted per fess. Why else would it be blazoned that way rather than as "purpure a chief nebuly?"
Chas Charles-Dunne wrote:Because it is too broad to be a chief. The blazon is quite clear - "Per fess nebuly enhanced Bleu-celeste and Purpure issuant in chief a Sun in Splendour Or in base three Bees volant proper."
The College of Arms is the authority and if they call it Bleu Celest, that is what it is. Pretending that it is a different tincture doesn't help the argument at all.
Chris Green wrote:Whatever one's opinion of the tincture "rule" (the Nordics, to name but a few, would never have countenanced these arms), the juxtaposition of purpure, bleu celeste and or is simply horrid. Substitute sable for purpure and the arms are not that bad.
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