Dexter Family Arms

 
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22 October 2009 18:10
 

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..

 
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22 October 2009 20:17
 

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:

 

http://www.ngw.nl/int/fra/dept/images/marne.gif

 
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22 October 2009 20:21
 

Here’s another, the region of Champagne-Ardennes:

http://emblemes.free.fr/regions/champard-a.gif

 
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23 October 2009 01:02
 

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

 
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23 October 2009 09:14
 

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.

 
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23 October 2009 10:19
 

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. wink

 

in the 1880’s my family was in New Hampshire.  thanks for the info. :grin:

 
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23 October 2009 10:58
 

One might allude to the surname by simply applying the cotice to one side…

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/8080/dexter01.png

 
 
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23 October 2009 15:58
 

Kenneth has a good point there!

 
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23 October 2009 16:24
 

i am still new to heraldry, a little confused? can someone please explain…..

...refering to dexter, the field in heraldry?

 
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23 October 2009 17:13
 

Dexter = the bearer’s right and therefore the viewer’s left

Sinister = the bearer’s left and therefore the viewer’s right

 
 
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23 October 2009 17:29
 

Here is the complete listing in Websters Dictionary Online. You have a very heraldic surname. smile

 

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

 
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26 October 2009 23:39
 

How about a bend potenty between two dexter hands?

 
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05 July 2010 21:20
 

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh109/cdex85/dxshield.jpg

after approx. 1 year of work this is what i got.

 
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05 July 2010 22:20
 

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.

 
 
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05 July 2010 22:51
 

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.