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Joseph Staub
 
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31 May 2014 02:26
 

Gules, between three goblets argent a bar wreathed or.

Now, what would that look like?

 
Michael F. McCartney
 
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31 May 2014 02:49
 

I’m picturing a red field, a gold horizontal stripe across the middle twisted like a crest wreath - i.e. a gold rope - with 2 silver cups in chief & a 3rd silver cup in base.

Seems like a clean, simple design & likely unique because the few examples I’ve seen of a fess or bar wreathed have all been of two colors, like a crest wreath.

 
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31 May 2014 05:19
 

It would look a bit like this. Sorry for the crudeness, I’m not an artist… but I know my way around Serif DrawPlus and Armorial Gold.

http://s1121.photobucket.com/user/StarScepter/media/Shield4AHS.png.html?sort=3&o=0

 
Terry Baldwin
 
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31 May 2014 06:20
 

I Agree with Michael, an Arms given to Carmichael of Scotland shows the heraldic precedent for the ordinary "wreathed", although of two colors. The single color would seem to make it, indeed, unique.

 
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01 June 2014 08:32
 

Terry Baldwin;102107 wrote:

The single color would seem to make it, indeed, unique.


Or, if you squint, superfluous (the "wreathing" that is).

 
 
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02 June 2014 12:54
 

Thank you, all. Would we blazon the wreathing as right or left?

 
Michael F. McCartney
 
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02 June 2014 14:59
 

I would think you would emblazon it the same way as a crest wreath - but IMO either way would be heraldically the same arms i.e. not different enough to constitute two distinct designs..

As to superflous (sp?) - maybe, but that would be the challenge to the artist.  If it was me, I’d in effect fimbrate the twists in the field color.  Also IMO/FWIW it would work better with a fess wreathed than a bar wreathed - fatter "rope" with fewer twists and more room to visibly fimbrate each twist.