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Michael Swanson
 
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Michael Swanson
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17 November 2006 00:47
 

Here is an interesting collection:

http://www.fordham.edu/Academics/

 

The main arms are:

 

http://web.lemoyne.edu/~hevern/FORDHAMSEAL.JPGhttp://www.fordham-tradition.org/F_seal.jpg

 

Does anyone know the blazon????: Or, the Christian monogram "IHS" Argent in base a ??? all within a bordure Azure charged with an orle of six fleur and six ??? outward Argent.

 
Michael F. McCartney
 
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17 November 2006 12:34
 

The device on the bordure appears to be a double tressure flory-counterflory (see the upper left corner color photo on the linked page you cite).  Why this is used I can’t say.  It would IMO certainly be inappropriate in personal or family arms assumed/adopted in the US.  For an educational institution, the same concerns & observations recently posted elsewhere on this forum re: the use of the arms of Orange, and on the thread re: Our Education, would seem to apply.

 
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18 November 2006 21:10
 

Michael F. McCartney wrote:

The device on the bordure appears to be a double tressure flory-counterflory (see the upper left corner color photo on the linked page you cite).  Why this is used I can’t say.  It would IMO certainly be inappropriate in personal or family arms assumed/adopted in the US.  For an educational institution, the same concerns & observations recently posted elsewhere on this forum re: the use of the arms of Orange, and on the thread re: Our Education, would seem to apply.


The closeup in this pdf (search for "seal") seems to indicate a one sided flory.

 

http://www.fordham.edu/images/student_activities/lc/lc grad handbook a grad intro.pdf

 

The blazon is perhaps:

 

Or, the monogram "IHS" with the cross above the "H" Azure and the three nails of the cross below it proper, a bordure Sanguine charged with six plates outside a tressure flory Argent.

 

or perhaps

 

Argent, the monogram "IHS" with the cross above the "H"  and the three nails of the cross below it Or, a bordure Sanguine charged with six plates outside a tressure flory Argent.