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Drawknife

Drawknife (Period)

A drawknife is a carpenter’s tool for smoothing wood, consisting of a long-edged knife with a handle at either end. It’s a period charge, found in the canting arms (German schaben, “to scrape”) of von Schaben, 1605 [Siebmacher 139]. The drawknife is fesswise, handles and cutting edge to base, by default. For related charges, see shave. See also float, plane.

Alrikr Timber-quaker bears: Per saltire gules and sable, a drawknife and a bordure dovetailed argent.

Abrahe çaragoça bears: Or, on a fess dovetailed gules a drawknife Or.

Ailill mac Duib Dara bears as a badge: A drawknife argent.

Cross: Flory, fleury, floretty, Cleves

Cross flory (Period)

Cross floretty (Period)

The “cross flory” or “cross fleury” was originally an artistic variant of the cross patonce. As a distinct form, it dates from c.1300, in the arms of Lamplow [ANA2 314]. The distinction may be granted for the sake of the artist, but no heraldic difference is granted.

The “cross floretty” is a further outgrowth of the cross flory, with the fleurs-de-lys issuant from the ends of a cross couped. It’s a period variant, found in the arms of Carlisle, c.1455 [Scots 49v]. The cross floretty’s limbs may be straight, or splayed as a “cross formy floretty” (or “cross formy flory at the ends”). The distinction between a cross floretty, cross flory, and cross patonce may be blazoned for the sake of the artist, but no heraldic difference is granted between them.

Cross of Cleves (Accepted)

The “cross of Cleves” is said to be an alternative blazon for the “Latin cross flory”; however, Your Author has found no examples of the term’s use in blazon outside the Society.

Godfrey de Calverley bears: Sable, in saltire five crosses fleury Or.

Constanza Raffaella dall’Oriente bears: Vert semy-de-lys, a Latin cross floretty Or.

Paul Puissant bears: Sable, three crosses of Cleves argent, on a chief dovetailed Or three torteaux.

Columbine

Columbine slipped and leaved (Period)

The columbine is a droopy-petaled flower, which was held to have medicinal value in period. It’s a period charge, found as early as 1461, in the arms of the Worshipful Company of Cooks [Bromley & Child 53]. The columbine is drawn in a somewhat stylized manner, with the petals resembling doves (hence the name); it is pendant by default. When “proper”, the columbine has blue petals.

The Shire of Cúil Choluim bears: Purpure, on a chevron between three columbine flowers Or three laurel wreaths vert.

Aodhnait Máire Siobhán ní Nuanáin bears: Ermine, a columbine azure slipped and leaved vert.

Sancha de Flores bears: Gules, a columbine slipped and leaved argent.

Amabel Radleigh bears: Argent, three columbines azure, slipped and leaved vert.

Breast

Breast distilling three gouts (Period)

A breast is an organ that produces milk for suckling. In heraldry, the usual breast is the human (woman’s) breast, sometimes explicitly blazoned so. It’s a period charge, found in the canting arms (from the colloquial “dug”) of Dodge, 1531 [Dennys 144]. The breast must always be depicted distilling gouts, to distinguish it from a roundel; Society rulings require the gouts to have some contrast (i.e., not be the same tincture) as their breast.

When blazoned “proper”, the breast follows the same Society blazon conventions as full humans proper, as described under human figure.

Helga Grímsdóttir bears: Sable, a human breast argent distilling three gouttes, a bordure dovetailed Or.

Tetchubah of Greenlake bears as a badge: A human breast azure distilling three gouttes argent.

Ismeralda Franceska Rusciolelli da Vale bears as a badge: A human breast proper distilling three gouttes d’Or.

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Birdcage

Closed birdcage (Period)

A birdcage is a small enclosure made of wire bars, in which birds are kept. It’s found in the arms of Walther von der Vogelweide, c.1300 [Manesse]. The blazon should specify whether the birdcage’s door is open or closed; but it must have a bird, as it’s otherwise not possible to tell it’s a birdcage. The illustration shows a closed birdcage with its bird. See also nest.

Aislynn de Darkenhall bears: Azure, within an open birdcage Or a dove reguardant argent, a bordure engrailed argent semy of roses proper.

Birds

Birds in Society heraldry follow most of the conventions as those of mundane heraldry. As a rule of thumb, most birds are statant close by default.

There are some bird postures unique to Society heraldry. A bird “stooping” is volant to dexter base, with the body bendwise sinister and the wings addorsed and swept back. A bird “striking” has its wings elevated and addorsed, its head lowered, and its talons extended; for purposes of difference, it is indistinguishable from a bird rising. A bird “migrant” or “migratory” is tergiant, wings displayed or displayed inverted, head erect; with no other qualification, a bird is migrant to chief. The posture is no longer allowed, pending period examples.

Any bird known to period Europeans may be used in Society armory – though, if the bird is not itself European, its use may be considered a step from period practice. (An exception is made for non-European birds actually used in period European armory. The turkeycock is perhaps the prime example of this.) The unmodified term “bird” can be used in blazon to refer to a generic bird, vaguely pigeon-shaped; it will conflict with all “standard” birds, as classified below.

In terms of difference between birds, as of this writing the Society’s policy classes every bird into one of four categories: crane-shaped (e.g., cranes, storks, herons), swan-shaped (e.g., swans, geese, ducks), poultry-shaped (e.g., chickens, quail, peacocks), and “standard bird” (e.g., corbies, doves, raptors). (One might assume a fifth category, “other”, to cover anomalies such as the ostrich.) Birds from different categories, when in period postures for those birds, will usually be considered completely different for purposes of conflict.

For specific birds, see: cock, crane, crow, dove, eagle, falcon, firebird, goose, hummingbird, martlet, moorcock, ostrich, owl, peacock, pelican, penguin, popinjay, roc, sea-mew, simurgh, swallow, swan, turkeycock, vulture.

Grim Finch bears: Argent, a bend per bend sable and azure, in chief a finch volant, wings addorsed azure.

Eleanor of Pica bears: Vert, a magpie proper maintaining in its dexter talon a feather argent.

Linnet of Liddington bears: Quarterly azure and Or, four linnets counterchanged.

Luke Aucher bears: Argent, a great auk close sable and a chief rayonny gules.

Robin Vinehall the Ambivalent bears: Or, in fess two robins close addorsed, tails crossed in saltire proper.

Wilhelmina Brant bears: Or, two pheasants respectant and in chief three garden roses slipped vert.

Božena z Prahy bears: Gules, a pigeon between flaunches argent.

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