Ship Volant

matthew at calmeilles.co.uk · 19 Feb 2009, 10:36 · from 2009-February.txt.gz

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From: matthew at calmeilles.co.uk (matthew at calmeilles.co.uk)
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:36:05 +0000
Subject: (urth) Ship Volant
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dstockhoff at verizon.net wrote:
> Bingo. Or Severian would have called the image on the coin a "tower volant." And on fire as well, presumably. I doubt there's a heraldry term for that!

Two options; if "proper" ie depicted with a degree of realism "aflame" as in:

Arms impaled. Dexter: Arms party per fess Gules and Argent; in chief a cross of the second with a heart enflamed in centre Or and upon a chief of the second three fleur-de-lis per fess of the third; in base a carpenter's square per chevron between three lilies of the second. Sinister: Or, issuant from a base wavy Azure a tower aflame Argent, the tongues of fire Gules; on a chief of the third a Cedar of Lebanon Proper.

http://www.htdiocese.org/BishopsOffice/tabid/707/Default.aspx

If symbolic wavy hauriant Gules indented Or - red vertical wavy lines with inside border of gold - would be understood as would anything vaguely similar, eg the Congressional Space Medal of honour a red line on while band symbolises botht eh "fire" of the rockets and courage of astronauts.  http://history.nasa.gov/spacemedal1.pdf

Matthew

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