http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh109/cdex85/dextercharged.jpg
i made the "T’s" larger, was tough…lol
i like the lion passant guardant, very english, still not complete..
By the way, where people may have seen this kind of bend before is in the arms of the old French province of Champagne:
http://www.ngw.nl/int/fra/dept/images/champagn.gif
Or perhaps of the city of Troyes, capital of the county:
http://www.ngw.nl/int/fra/t/images/troyes.jpg
The same but as a fess is the arms of the modern Department of the Marne:
BCT;72788 wrote:
I was wondering if anyone would suggest a cant for the name Dexter. It’s not as easy as it first appears.
One of these?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Dexter_steer_at_SF_zoo.jpg
The Dexter is a rare breed of cattle originating in Ireland, usually solid black, occasionally solid dark red
Obscure, but no more so than other heraldic puns.
James
James Dempster;72808 wrote:
The Dexter is a rare breed of cattle originating in Ireland, usually solid black, occasionally solid dark red
Obscure, but no more so than other heraldic puns.
A bull’s head sable or gules might make a good crest.
James,
thanks for the post. but the dexter breed of cattle originated in Ireland and came to England around 1882. my family is from England. According to my genealogy my family came to america in 1630 with John Winthrop and settled in Massachusetts. i dont think that the dexter cattle was bread by someone in my same family line. ironic, one of my gramps nicknames when he played college football was "bull." It fit him good.
in the 1880’s my family was in New Hampshire. thanks for the info. :grin:
One might allude to the surname by simply applying the cotice to one side…
Kenneth has a good point there!
i am still new to heraldry, a little confused? can someone please explain…..
...refering to dexter, the field in heraldry?
Dexter = the bearer’s right and therefore the viewer’s left
Sinister = the bearer’s left and therefore the viewer’s right
Here is the complete listing in Websters Dictionary Online. You have a very heraldic surname.
Main Entry: dex·ter
Pronunciation: \ˈdek-stər\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin; akin to Old High German zeso situated on the right, Greek dexios
Date: 1562
1 : relating to or situated on the right
2 : being or relating to the side of a heraldic shield at the right of the person bearing it
— dexter adverb
How about a bend potenty between two dexter hands?
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh109/cdex85/dxshield.jpg
after approx. 1 year of work this is what i got.
dex;77398 wrote:
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh109/cdex85/dxshield.jpg
after approx. 1 year of work this is what i got.
Just a couple of style points. The stars should have their base on the same line as the lion, or at least a line parallel to it on the bend. With this particular blazon, I would probably opt for larger, "free-standing" ermine spots rather than the field of small, regularly spaced ermine spots that appear amidst the potent cotice lines.
Bends are a funny thing, and the charges placed on them are supposed to be naturally appear at the same angle of the bend. So on Mr. Mansfield’s point, your stars appear to be rotated. Unless you wish the stars to specifically look that way, of course, then they would be blazoned as "mullets of five points paleways".
But it is a good design.