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- From: velde2@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Francois Velde)
- Subject: Re: Imperial Eagles (was: Byzantine Flags, and Another Question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.174038.20803@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- References: <BxwG72.688@well.sf.ca.us> <1992Nov18.045457.1@acad3.alaska.edu> <BRANDON.92Nov18142932@gauss.math.brown.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:40:38 GMT
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- In article <BRANDON.92Nov18142932@gauss.math.brown.edu> brandon@gauss.math.brown.edu (Joshua Brandon) writes:
- >James Zuelow writes:
- >>
- >>I'll stay away from heraldric terms since i'm not fully familiar with
- >>them, and
- >>describe the arms in `normal' terms- a silver shield, with a single horizontal
- >>black bar across the middle, the width being roughly 1/4 the heigth of the
- >>shield.
- >
- >In heraldic terms, this would be "Argent, a fess sable", which are indeed
- >very simple arms, although I can't tell you where they came from.
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- Rietstap gives Zu"low: Argent, a fess Sable, and gives Mecklenburg and
- Prussia as origin.
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- Francois Velde
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