Argent and Or

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Basic Information:

Many combinations of argent and Or (white/silver and yellow/gold), especially argent on Or and Or on argent, would be considered low contrast and would be un-registerable using the Core Style rules. They would have to be registered as an Individually Attested Pattern formerly known as a Regional Style Exception. See SENA - http://heraldry.sca.org/sena.html#A4

Tincture IAP Database on Google Drive: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsKqJkKo3DKgdDdxMEdBeHhhREpycS1PWjEtd05DMmc&usp=sharing

Form to add new examples to the Tincture IAP Database on Google Drive: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PGElgT_98WQK-HksxXOpbqc8SN6EPXXTJ-fvigbA0M8/viewform

Or & Argent, December 31, 1994 by Archbishop Bruno Bernard Heim - research into the development of the Rule of Tinctures as regards metal on metal by someone whose own family arms are metal-on-metal.

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Period Examples:

Link to Tincture IAP Spreadsheet on Google Docs

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Form to add new examples to the Tincture IAP Spreadsheet (please share!)

• Spreadsheet

Germanic

Regional Exceptions to the Rule of Tincture, Vol. 01 (German) - [[2]]

Regional Exceptions to the Rule of Tincture, Vol. 02 (more German) - [[3]]

The Zurich Roll (@http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ZurichRoll/) has these:

• #124 SWANDEG: Argent, an ibex statant sable within a bordure or.
• #150 SCHINKEN: Azure, on a mullet of eight points or a trimount couped argent.

File:UniverseelWapenboek hm1080 scalyVSvair contrast.jpg
c.1558 Universeel Wapenboek, KM1080, scaly vs. vair? argent on argent/Or?	Familienwappen des Hohen Adels, 27r, argent flowers on an Or chevron

The below blazons are not attested, merely reference notes: @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_151_Siebmacher.htm Argent bend on Or with tertiary good contrast critter pierced by sword. @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_151_Siebmacher.htm Argent bend on Or with three good contrast tertiaries. @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_153_Siebmacher.htm Argent, a saltire couped Or @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_156_Siebmacher.htm Per pale argent and Or, two axes adorsed counterchanged hafted proper?. @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_156_Siebmacher.htm Or flower pot with high contrast flowers planted in the pot on argent field. @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_161_Siebmacher.htm Argent field with what might be Or spears, if the g is meant to be the spear tincture. The spears do not look Or. @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_162_Siebmacher.htm Argent a bend Or. @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_163_Siebmacher.htm Or a bird of some type rising reguardant? @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_167_Siebmacher.htm Or a fess wavy ermine? argent with diapering? argent semy of things sable? @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_168_Siebmacher.htm Argent a torse gules banded argent with six large Or leaves sticking out of it in annulo with stems to center. http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_172_Siebmacher.htm Argent three birds some light tincture http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_178_Siebmacher.htm Argent a sprig of three leaves Or stemmed brown (a tree Or?) http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_178_Siebmacher.htm]]Lachner--is this unpainted or is it really argent on argent? http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_187_Siebmacher.htm]] Or, on a bend argent three roses gules @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_189_Siebmacher.htm Die Falcken--is the bird Or (giving us Or on Or) or is it brown? @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_210_Siebmacher.htm Sable, on a bend wavy Or three critters Or. Did they not finish painting this? @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_215_Siebmacher.htm Sable, on a saltire Or a mullet of six sable within a horseshoe Or (brown?). Did they not finish painting the horseshoe. is it Or, or is it brown? http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_216_Siebmacher.htm]] Per fess gules and argent, three mullets of six Or. (Yes, the field is neutral but only for a large central charge or a bordure or orle.) http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_220_Siebmacher.htm]] Argent six fleurs-de-lys Or. Did they finish painting this? http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_221_Siebmacher.htm]] Or a weird castle-type building argent. http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_221_Siebmacher.htm]] Argent, a cross Or http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_221_Siebmacher.htm]] Or, a three towered castle argent http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_222_Siebmacher.htm]] Or a two towered castle Or maintaining a lion sable http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_223_Siebmacher.htm]] Marpvrg Is the horse light blue or is it argent? http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_223_Siebmacher.htm]] Or two towers argent maintaining a rose gules. http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_225_Siebmacher.htm]] Argent, a castle argent. This also has three roses gules and a very small trimount/mount vert - the roses are much smaller than the castle. @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_226_Siebmacher.htm Argent, a church argent roofed gules. @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_28_Siebmacher.htm Or, a pale sable, overall an eagle argent @http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_30_Siebmacher.htm Argent a horse salient Or http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_36_Siebmacher.htm]] Gules, on a bend argent, three mullets of six Or. http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_36_Siebmacher.htm]] Per fess embattled(?), argent and sable, in chief a leaf issuant from the division Or http//www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_45_Siebmacher.htm]] Or a demibear sable, maintaining a weird-looking curved stick, issuant from a trimount argent http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_49a_Siebmacher.htm]] Azure, on a bend argent, an arrow inverted Or. http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_62_Siebmacher.htm]] Argent, three flag/flagpoles issuant from a trimount Or. The flags themselves are divided per fess Or and gules. The flagpoles are gules. http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_70_Siebmacher.htm]] Argent, on a bend Or, three roses azure. http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_90_Siebmacher.htm]] Azure, on a bend argent fimbriated, three fleurs-de-lys Or. http://www.wappenbuch.de/pages/wappen_95_Siebmacher.htm]] Argent, a human robed gules...issuant from a trimount Or

Italian:

Insignia Venetorum II BSB 271, plate 185 (f ?), Chalbani - Bendy Or and argent. [[4]]

Milanese Armorial BSB 270, plate 113, folio 52r, De Basis - Bendy argent and Or, a chief Or. [[5]]

Insignia Venetorum III BSB 272, folio 134r, Di Gorni - Gyronny Or fimbriated argent (?), 6 mullets-of-six argent. [[6]]

Ibid, plate 139, folio 65r, De Baziis - Paly argent and Or, a chief Or [[7]]

Insignia	Insignia	BSB272,	Stemmario
[gda=1426083872_78e94669b17410a30846c91d8022fd89|127x191px|BSB]	[[8]]

Iberian:

Portuguese armorial with two checky argent and Or...

Livro	Armas	Armas

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From Großes Wappenbuch, enthaltend die Wappen der deutschen Kaiser, der europäischen Königs- und Fürstenhäuser, der Päpste und Kardinäle, Bischöfe und Äbte bis zu den lebenden Repräsentanten zur Zeit der Regentschaft Kaiser Rudolfs II. und Papst Gregors XIII. - Cod.icon. 333 [S.l.] Süddeutschland 1583 @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/Blatt_bsb00002481,00006.html (collected by Gunnvor silfrahar)

Bishop Caseln P: Argent, a saltire gules within a bordure Or. @http://codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de/1bsb00002481_00072.jpg

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#x--Precedents:Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - [[9]] Morsulus Heralds Website - [[10]] (to search the LoARs and Precedents)

From the <month> <year> LoAR: