Sea Creature Postures
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Examples:
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An Ordinary of Siebmacher's Wappenbuch
Artifacts
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Modern:
Pictorial Dictionary, 3rd edition:
Vector Graphics:
- Book of Traceable Heraldic Art
- Viking Answer Lady - http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/Stars/Heraldry_SVG_Images/index.htm
Annotated Pennsic Traceable Art Project
Sources:
- Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Heraldry Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/
- Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi
- Laurel Armory Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/armory_articles.html
- https://iiif.biblissima.fr/collections/ - website that searches multiple great digital libraries
- New Heraldic Primer (Heraldry for Non-Heralds) - http://heraldry.sca.org/armory/newprimer/
- Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry (PicDic), 3rd Edition - http://mistholme.com/pictorial-dictionary-of-heraldry
- Period Armorials
- Parker's Heraldry - https://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker/index.htm
- Riestap's Armorial Général - http://www.euraldic.com/lasu/bl/bl_a_aa.html
A Heraldic Primer:
Sea Creatures and their postures - http://heraldry.sca.org/primer/fish.html (defunct, originally by Stephen Gold)
As we have discussed the birds of the air and the beasts of the field, the denizens of the ocean are also seen in armory. They range from the dolphin (a fish very different from Flipper) and the whale through various different fish used primarily for canting. Rounding out the aquatic cavalcade are lobsters, crabs, escallops, octopi [now to be blazoned as polypus/polypi as of March 2012 LoAR in order to use a more period term] and squid [to be blazoned as calamarie or cuttle-fish per the March 2012 LoAR].
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| A dolphin | A lucy (medieval name for pike) | A whale | A lobster |
Just as beasts and birds have certain names for postures, most fish have specific names for postures, as outlined below.
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| Embowed | Curved body bending 'inward' | 
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| Embowed-counterembowed | 'S' shaped curve to the body, Seen most often with dolphins.
[Some treatises refer to this at torqued, torquend, torgant, or targant] |
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| Haurient | Body in pale, head to chief [haurient for dolphins looks like embowed-counterembowed ?] | 
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| Naiant | Body in fess, head to dexter | 
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| Urinant | Body in pale, head to base | 
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Precedents:
Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.
Definition:
(includes defaults, proper tinctures, blazoning)
Example
Registerability:
(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)
Conflict:
Identifiability:
Collected Precedents:
- 2nd Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (April 2011 - August 2011) - Collected Armory Precedents
- 1st Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (May 2005 - July 2008) - Collected Armory Precedents
- 2nd Tenure of François la Flamme (October 2004 - May 2005) - Collected Armory Precedents
- The Tenure of Shauna of Carrick Point (May 2004 - August 2004) - Collected Armory Precedents
- 1st Tenure of François la Flamme (August 2001 - April 2004) - Collected Armory Precedents
- The Tenure of Elsbeth Anne Roth (June 1999 - July 2001) - Collected Armory Precedents
- The Tenure of Jaelle of Armida (June 1996 - June 1999) - Single HTML Document
- 2nd Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (November 1993 - June 1996) -
- The Tenure of Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme (June 1992 - October 1993) - Collected precedents
- 1st Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (June 1990 - June 1992) -
- The Tenure of Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane (September 1986 - June 1990) - Collected Precedents
- The Tenure of Baldwin of Erebor (August 1984 - August 1986) - Single HTML Document
- The Tenure of Wilhelm von Schlüssel (August 1979 - August 1984) - Collected Precedents
- The Tenure of Karina of the Far West (December 1975 - June 1979) - Collected Precedents
- The Early Days (June 1971 - June 1975) - Collected Precedents
The Ordinary:
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WARNING: Do not cite this page as a reference. This page is on this wiki only to make the content "searchable" and easier to find. If you find the information you seek here, go to the original sources (generally linked) to verify the information and use them for your documentation.