[NS-Heralds] Blazoning Help - 2'nd re-Submittal

[Sara L Uckelman]

Quoth Grimmund:
> So, a hedgehog proper, would be OK on a metal.

It's OK on a metal, but because parts of it are white, it's
not OK on argent.  Here is a precedent about a similar situation:

"Luke Aucher.  Device. Argent, a great auk close proper and a chief 
rayonny gules.  This device is returned for lack of contrast. 
Unfortunately, just as a black orca with a white belly can't be put 
on an argent field (v. Rowan Seer, March 2000), so too a black auk 
with a white belly can't be put on an argent field." [LoAR 07/2007]

An urchin proper couold be put on an Or pile, if your submitter
wouldn't mind that change.
 
> The pile is as wide as the top of the shield, tapering down to a point in bas
> e.

Piles should not be *quite* as wide as the shield; they do not issue
from the corners, but from further in:

"Godfrey de Bolden. Device. Or, on a pile rayonny sable, three cups Or.
The primary charge is not really a pile, as piles do not issue from 
the corners of the shield. Please have the submitter narrow the pile in 
chief when he resubmits." [LoAR 10/1990]

 
-Aryanhwy



 
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