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I've been trying to decide on a coat of arms for myself for a while now, so I thought I'd post my ideas in the thread. About a year and a half ago I started after reading a couple books and speaking to my grandparents about my family history. Originally in England my paternal family worked as groundskeepers and dug graves, and my maternal grandfather's device is a bee, so I came up with this:  Or and Argent = rays of sunlight shining down on the earth, which has a skull (which I planned on coining "Yorick") in base. I know about the rule of metal, but from what I've read that really only applies to metal-on-metal, rather than side-by-side, and I was able to find a few historical examples similar to what I have here. My problem with this design was that skulls are kind of "Ed Hardy", so I then moved on to this:  Which I like, but doesn't have much meaning aside from being a teacher (billets = letters, education). My latest attempts are these two (sorry for the rough designs):  Bees, grandfather, Lion, England and:  Lion changed to Sealion to represent my living on the ocean. I like them all, and have yet to make a decision despite thinking about it for some time  Edit: I've also considered just doing a murrey/arget stripe design, as it's simple and I don't believe it's been done before:  Murrey is more burgundy in Canada for some reason iirc. Professor Shark has a new favorite as of 20:40 on Dec 30, 2013 |
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Argent and Or: I'll double check which armorial I know one of them is in, but I must have deleted the other few examples I found. They're all pretty much bendy/bends/ per fess.
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Dec 30, 2013 23:01
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It turns out I was thinking of the Bellenville Armorial and after flipping through about half of it I cannot tell if knights just didn't care about tincture/ metal rules or if the heralds were just being lazy/ never got around to finishing:         Bonus Chicken-Head Knight: 
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Dec 31, 2013 00:06
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A few more, divided between or/argent tangent and bizzare and awful looking stuff:            I'm coming more and more around to the conclusion that the or/argent thing wasn't followed in a lot of cases (at least according to this armorial) by those who supposedly needed it the most, which makes me question the existence of the "rule" today. Professor Shark has a new favorite as of 14:17 on Dec 31, 2013 |
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Dec 31, 2013 14:14
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Weird stuff:          
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Dec 31, 2013 14:14
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E4C85D38 posted:Information Thanks for this! E4C85D38 posted:
This was just supposed to be a "what?" example, I had no problem with the tincture aspect. E4C85D38 posted:
Isn't this just vair? E4C85D38 posted:
Flying fish? It showed up a couple of times in the armorial. E4C85D38 posted:
It is, plus it's 3D, which I haven't seen before.
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Dec 31, 2013 17:47
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Updating this to include the coat of arms that I've chosen for myself: Murrey, semy bees or What another heraldist did up using the common purple/red mixture for Murrey: I changed it to what Canadian heraldry depict Murrey as: He revised it to what a design program calls "maroon": I think that the bees from the stock images he used look too much like horseflies (Interesting Fact: Pope Urban VIII's family coat of arms originally was 3 horseflies, but as the family became "more noble" the charges did too, and so the flies were upgraded to bees), but it was nice of him to whip up. I like it, and I'm glad that taking a step back from the process helped me to cement my ideas. This thread got me back to thinking about it, so thanks! Professor Shark has a new favorite as of 21:19 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Feb 16, 2014 21:09
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Hogge Wild posted:gay pants There was another one that had a "label" on it, denoting the son-and-heir of the guy with the underwear on his shield. So that no one gets confused and thinks that HE is Sir Underwear, Sr. Also that horse is more anatomically accurate than most charges. NSFW  Professor Shark has a new favorite as of 22:11 on Feb 16, 2014 |
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Feb 16, 2014 22:08
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http://www.kb.nl/bladerboek/wapenboek/browse/book.html
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Feb 16, 2014 22:26
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May 10, 2014 18:39
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Le0 posted:Flag chat yey! Is it Canton or Canting? I think a Canton is the "badge" part of a shield, like the blue-with-stars part of the US flag...
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Sep 25, 2014 20:06
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_%28heraldry%29 I didn't realize that it meant "corner", which applies to the Swiss map, you're right
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Sep 25, 2014 20:19
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I think that's some sort of famous knot, it's used pretty frequently in heraldry as a badge for families from a region in England... I cannot remember. Edit: The Stafford badge
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Sep 27, 2014 10:21
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Hey, I'm sure you aren't aware of this, but this is actually a very, VERY controversial flag and terrible symbol of the Nazi Party.
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Sep 27, 2014 11:13
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:
Every time I check out this page I scroll past this flag and I dig it more and more. The 6 panel design can look p good: 
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Sep 28, 2014 10:57
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Oct 31, 2014 14:08
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Scrollin through an armorial, heraldry has the most bizarre poo poo in it:         No Sir Underwear yet, I'll look over the last half of it tomorrow (750+ pages in total, these things were crazy!).
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Nov 10, 2014 02:17
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    I thought this one was kind of cool, brothers/ cousins I assume    
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Nov 11, 2014 16:28
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Kidney Stone posted:
Your wife may or may not be eligible for those arms unless you can trace her from being a direct descendent, consistently the offspring of each first-born son or daughters (I think daughters juts kept their father's arms?), of whoever the arms were granted to. That would be quite the task and it's pretty unlikely their hers. Professor Shark has a new favorite as of 18:25 on Nov 11, 2014 |
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Nov 11, 2014 18:19
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In the mean time I asked about it on a heraldry site, they might be able to find an armorial that would either have a full color version or a description.
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Nov 11, 2014 20:18
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Kidney Stone posted:That would be pretty cool if they could - we'd be thankful! Someone found an entry in Rietstap's Armorial General:  = De sable au lion d'or tenant une fleur de lis d'argent, or a black background with a gold lion holding a white fleur-de-lis They suggest contacting Swedish Heraldry societies/ authorities to confirm that this is in fact the correct Guenther!
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Nov 12, 2014 22:26
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Kidney Stone posted:Ok, that's actually quite helpful - I've taken contact to Svenska Heraldiska Föreningen, hopefully they'll be able to help us out? Not sure, I just became very interested in it when I read about it. Vanity probably plays a role in there too 
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Nov 15, 2014 12:46
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Andrew Stewart Jamieson, who I believe is now retired from heraldry, is my all time favorite heraldic artist: 
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Dec 22, 2014 14:59
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My home province has a pretty badass coat of arms: Nova Scotia (New Scotland, hence the simple reversal of color from the Scottish flag and plopping the Scottish coat of arms down inescutcheon (shield in the middle of a shield)) This was the original coat of arms when the province was founded, but apparently people simply forgot about it and eventually the government made up their own and used this visual monstrosity:  It was used for a long time, but thankfully someone rediscovered the original arms.
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Dec 30, 2014 13:02
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Hogge Wild posted:Hah, "Don't fear the Reaper". According to Wiki "One [hand] defends and the [hand] other conquers"
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Dec 30, 2014 15:54
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Tuskin38 posted:Nova Scotia Bros  Here is the CoA for the Nova Scotia Tattoo, a Scottish dance event that occurs yearly:  It has the NS colors, I think it looks pretty cool
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Dec 31, 2014 17:08
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Military heraldry could be so much better if they invested in an actual herald every once in a while
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Jan 22, 2015 00:39
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  that crest
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Jan 22, 2015 13:50
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Randoms, may be repeats:         
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Feb 26, 2015 20:27
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Mar 3, 2015 12:41
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  I think the term is "portrait heraldry", but there was a period where heraldry went through a really, really ugly phase. 
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Mar 3, 2015 12:58
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Mar 7, 2015 13:24
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Two modern, not very classic designs that I really like despite it:  It's all about that white/gold red/blue combination
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Mar 15, 2015 13:31
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May 8, 2015 10:39
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Admiral Bosch posted:I've always liked my surname's coat of arms(not that I am in any way calling it my personal arms), just because it seems so different from all the other European heraldry designs. I kinda want to get a tattoo of it, but I'm afraid people would mistake it for a neo-Nazi rune design or something. That's a "fret", it's actually not too uncommon and looks good:  There's also "fretty", which is a series of frets:  I plan on using fretty in some capacity when I design a coat of arms for my partner, as a cant on her name.
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Jun 23, 2015 10:28
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The Night of A Monkey Holding An Apple
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