Re: [Mid] Honest Heraldry Question

Heather (yes, that Heather) of Shadowed Stars wrote:

Well, she wrote a lot, but what I'm referring to was:
> I've asked my local pursuivant to find documentation on a certain field
> division. He was able to find out, from other heralds he knows, that it
> is documentable, but he doesn't have the actual sources that show it
> himself. Can anyone help me with this?
> The division, from what he found, is called a "tierce."
'Fraid I can't help you with more than a Yea, I've seen it too, and that's
what you call it and yea it's documentable. Dunno if it's period documentable,
but I recall seeing it on several SCA related Heraldry pages. I expect a lot of
capable heralds are going to give you the real info on this.

> On a somewhat related note, I'm interested in finding documentation
> regarding use of dragonflies in period devices.
Again, I don't know about period-ness, but a friend of mine here in the Barony
of Rivenstar recently passed the device "Or, three dragonflies sable" which
looks very spiff. Kinda jealous she got one that simple to pass, mostly because
I never thought to try. Oh, and she points the noses (proboscii?) of the
dragonflies towards the top of the shield either through stubborness or by cue
from the heralds. I assume that since its a flying thingy, default is with the
head chiefward.

> The real stickler of a
> question is, if I blazon a dragonfly "proper," what colors will I wind
> up with? I'm thinking eyes sable, but not necessarily; wings argent,
> maybe veined sable or some other color; and body either vert or azure,
> with sable accents.
I'd say skip the "proper" and go with a single-color insect, maybe dual if you
want to color the wings different (green body, silver wings?). I filled a
8.5x11 sheet of paper with my device and stood it as far away from me as I could
in my appartment to get a feel for what you could and couldn't distinguish.

adam comyn, protegee and squire and darn busy on weekends
sable, a lantern argent, between
flaunches barry wavy gules and argent
From: Adam Zabell <zabell@stanley.bio.purdue.edu>
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Received on Tue Jan 6 18:15:08 1998