Editing Strange Period Devices

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Welcome to the wild side of medieval heraldry.

See also [[Animals in Clothes]]

==Italian complexity

==Chicken-head, rose involved, Italian complexity==
{| class="wikitable"
| http://www.sofyalarus.info/heraldicart/BSBCgm145vonGrunenberg_f212_chickenhead.JPG
| [[File:Siebmacher1605 rose-slipped-involved.jpg]]
| [[File:ItalianComplexPointPointed.jpg|250 px]]
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| BSB Cgm 145, Das Wappenbuch Conrads von Grünenberg, 1480, folio 212, chicken-head
| Siebmacher 1605, a rose slipped and involved.
| From one of the 1550s Italian Insignia.
|}

==Moon-star, herring barrel with lilies, stringer of fish and fleurs==
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| https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/10247370_10205847119519112_5619664147148443228_n.jpg?oh=a11ee5dcd0edf1f4a06fc867f61cee59&oe=55E40A8D&<u>gda</u>=1440752772_4960259e24a0676f5e377a90a6c93678 
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| Siebmacher 1605?, moon-star, FB image courtesy of Rayne Evynwod.
| Siebmacher 1605, herring barrel with lilies, FB image courtesy of Rayne Evynwod.
| Siebmacher 1605, stringer of fish and fleurs, FB image courtesy of Rayne Evynwod.
|}

==Skinny chevrons, dogs on ladder, twisted limbs==
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| https://scontent-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11048280_10205847119759118_1872855786509165873_n.jpg?oh=8f3d9e41840a6306a794ee7b9c62f464&oe=55C4F1B5
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|-
| Siebmacher 1605, skinny chevrons on a skinny pale (vergette), FB image courtesy of Rayne Evynwod.
| Siebmacher 1605, dogs on a ladder, FB image courtesy of Rayne Evynwod.
| Siebmacher 1605, a redorte (stylized twisted branches), FB image courtesy of Rayne Evynwod
|}

==Bellenville Oddities==
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| https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/s960x960/10623940_942155609145188_2285521132013818671_o.jpg 
| 6v is an unusual rendition of a trivet. It's kinda cool.

29v I wanted to be a caterpillar involved, but I think it's a wing. Dunno how to blazon it.

33v is a nice, butch set of three sewing needles.</span>

37r is a set of three garbs that are so stylized they feel like modern graphics.</span>

41v is a weird mill-wheel. There were other, more normal mill wheels and regular wheels (I also liked the wheels with an axle, spoke, but the outer ring of the annulet invected).</span>

42r Turbot. The arms are canting on Both van der Eeme, in a rare case of a cant on the given name.</span></span>

43r Upside down ermine spots is weird.

50r-1 "Barry embowed to base gules and Or"? Demi-gurges?</span>

50r-2 Curule chair? nut cracker? Per Bruce Draconarius: <span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.8181819915771px;">arms of vanden Wolde or von dem Wolde. Popoff and Pastoureau identify the charge as a "tréteau de table" - a table trestle</span></span>

50r-3 They look like stick pins? anvils from above? probably empty spindles or yarn quills</span>

50r-4 These could be hats or the head of a pole weapon.</span>

55v Spiders could be a cant on COBham, but Rietstep thinks they're estoiles. </span>

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">60v a turning cratch? quintin? Per Bruce Draconarius:</span>

Polish armory per Popoff and Pastoureau, in their edition of Bellenville, cite this as the arms of Jan Bielik, and blazon it (translating from the French) as "Gules, a Tau atop a point of three steps, the ends of the cross pieces garnished with a demi-roundel, all Or."</span>

68v A hay rick. This is the first medieval one I think I've seen unless Bruce dug one out the last time we were discussing haystacks
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| Bellenville Armorial, 1355-1380, English
|}

==Industrial metal pan, strange celestial arms==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:BrotherhoodStChristopherc1420_metalpan.jpg|214x403px|Armorial]] 
| [[File:BSB272Venetorum_celestialheads_or-argent.jpg|350x509px|Insignia]] 
|-
| Armorial of the Brotherhood of St. Christopher, c. 1420, ore sluice? chisel mold? cheese-making tray? grain funnel?
| Insignia Venetorum, BSB 272, 1550-55, strange celestial Fabrizii arms (upper right and lower left), Or on argent (lower right)
|}


==Wounds x2, threatening lion==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:Nurnburg1555 ForeignKingdomsI GogMagog wounds.PNG|198x283px|Nurnberg]] 
| [[File:GogMagogWounds.png|219x239px|Sammelband,]] 
| [[File:BookofAttire1508-1551_lionchairsword.jpg|Book]] 
|-
| Nurnberg 1555, attributed arms of King Gog of Magog, wounds!
| Sammelband, BSB391, 1530, attributed arms of King Gog of Magog, more wounds
| Book of Attire of the Court of Duke William IV and Albert V of Bavaria, 1508 - 1551, lion on chair unsheathing (?) a sword
|}

==Vairy/scaly metal on metal, lion herissony?, exploding head==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:UniverseelWapenboek_hm1080_scalyVSvair_contrast.jpg|203x261px|c.1558]] 
| [[File:BretonArmorial_p019_lionherissony.jpg|Armorial]] 
| [[File:BSB272Venetorum_celestialheads_or-argent.jpg|300x436px|BSB272,]] 
|-
| c.1558 Universeel Wapenboek, KM1080, scaly vs. vair? argent on argent?
| Armorial le Breton, 13th-15th C., lion herissony?
| BSB272, Insignia Venetorum Nobilium, 1550-55, Frabrizii arms - 1) sun, 2) old gray man = ?, 3) sun from behind? sunburst?
|}

==Strange wings x2, demi-owl displayed==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:BSB275_f016r_wings.jpg|16th]] 
| [[File:BSB278_f012r_flipperwings.jpg|16th]] 
| [[File:ZachariasBartsch_038r_owldisplayed.jpg|220x287px|Zacharias]] 
|-
| 16th century Italian, wings counterchanged, position?
| 16th cent. Italian flipper wings?
| Zacharias Bartsch, 1567, f38r, demi-owl displayed, pink?
|}

==Monstrous canton, dust bunny==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:livroarmeiro_f134v_monstercanton.jpg|187x299px|1506-1509]] 
| [[File:zurich_237_furison_dustbunny.jpg|Zurich]] 
|-
| 1506-1509 Livro do Armeiro-Mor, 134v, barry indented and a huge canton
| Zurich Roll, c1340, #237, furison and "dust bunny" crest
|}

==Multicolored roundels, corn dogs, tesselated bears==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:BSB267_f239r_1550-55-cornucopia.jpg|245x341px|Insignia]] 
| [[File:Siebmacher_SchenkKolbe-bullrushes.jpg|268x322px|Siebmacher]] 
| [[File:Wappen_des_Hans_Burgkmair1516_bears.png|Wappen]] 
|-
| Insignia pontificum Romanorum et cardinalium II, 1550-55, BSB 267, f239r, cornucopias in saltire and multi-tinctured roundels
| Siebmacher - Schenk, Kolbe. Bullrushes? Cattails? Hams? Maces? Flower cobs?
| Wappen de Hans Burgkmair der Ältere, 1516 German, tessellated bears
|}

==Scalloped roundel, zero contrast, cornice==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:BSB278_f94r_scallopedroundel.jpg|208x440px]]  
| [[File:BSB291_f28v_zerocontrastcross.jpg|206x377px|Insignia]] 
|[[File:StemmarioTrivulziano_f064_Milan_1450_cornice.jpg|169x277px|Stemmario]]
|-
| Not quite a roundel scalloped?
| Insignia Anglica BSB 291, f28v, zero contrast cross.  Dictionary of British Arms; Medieval Ordinary, Volume three, page 202, under "Patterned field 1 plain cross plain border" is Arg fretty Gu cross Arg border Sa, for one Sir Hew Bryce, from WK (Writhe's Book of Knights, temp. Henry VII) 
| Stemmario Trivulziano, Milanese, c.1450, f64, cornice.  The [[Cornice]]
|}


==Monk in crown, tierce nebuly==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:Siebmacher_plate067_monkcrown.jpg|Siebmacher]] 
| [[File:BSB279_f109r_redbluenebulytierce.jpg|211px|Chief]] 
|-
| Siebmacher 1605, plate 67, crown and monk.  Sometimes you wear the crown and sometimes the crown wears you.
| Chief of allegiance to? Tierce nebuly? (and, of course, red on blue) 
|}

==Silly clown, funny hat==
{| class="wikitable"

|[[File:Arlberg_1548_knave.jpg]] 
|[[File:BSB308_f156v_hat.jpg|204x495px|Ortenburger]] |
|-
| Per the Neustifter Wappenbuch these are the arms of Reyssmaull, with the blazon: "In Rot wachsender silbern gekleideter Knabe mit silberner Kappe mit linker schwarzer Feder darauf, der mit beiden H{a:}nden die offenen Lippen waagrecht fletscht." Which may translate into "Gules, a boy argent rising (issuant? demi?) capped argent with a black feather in the cap to sinister, with both hands stretching his parted lips fesswise." 
| Turban? Judenhutt? Devo? 
|}


==Sinister chevrons, corpse on a bier==
{| class="wikitable"
|[[File:Schembartbuch Ms 351 100.jpg|261x419px|Schembartbuch,]] 
|[[File:Siebmacher_plate156-corpse.jpg|Siebmacher,]]
|-
| On a pile inverted issuant from sinister argent a pile issuant from sinister sable vs A pile inverted from sinister sable fimbriated argent?
|-
|*Per chevron inverted couched from sinister chief gules and sable, a chevron inverted couched from sinister chief argent* See: [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamburg_Schembartbuch_88.jpg]]
| Corpse on a bier/table/coffin (coffin meaning something different now than then?)  
|}

==Film reels, egg poacher, hand mill==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:ZachariasBartsch1567_CrossWheel-Lance.jpg|220x287px|Zacharias]]
| [[File:ZachariasBartsch1567_dievonHolnecth.jpg|220x287px]]
| [[File:Manesse_Handmill.JPG|Manesse]]
|-
| Film reels? Guide wheel? Norse cross wheel? Host? Monstrous? Lotus root? Or as Riestap calls it, "De gueules, à la croix pattée alésée d'argent, sommée d'un croissant figuré montant du même." = cross paty pierced argent (the same thing as a cross formy) with the enlarged ends of the arms conjoined.
| Mirror per Riestap? Aebelskiver pan? Egg poacher? Sedar dish? A baker's peel with manchets?
| Hand mill viewed from above
|}


 
==Lilies tents, butter churn, hinges?==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:ZachariasBartsch1567_PaviliansEagle.jpg|223x288px|Zacharias]] 
| [[File:ZachariasBartsch1567_ButterchurnBread.jpg|277x359px|Zacharias]]
| [[File:ZachariasBartsch1567 Hinges.jpg|277x359px|Zacharias]] 
|-
| Pavilions issuant from sinister
| Butterchurn in the crest. Loaves of bread or lozenges on the bend sinister?
| Most likely hinges with the holes and break in the middle, but also resemble zules or chess rooks conjoined in base.
|}

==Swallow-tailed sun, passant over rampant, half-arrows==
{| class="wikitable"
|[[File:BSB270 439r Merloned.jpg|246x415px|BSB]] 
|[[File:BSB312_1450-1580_TwoLions.jpg|243x338px|Scheibler'sches]]
|[[File:ZachariasBartsch1567_ArrowTurnip.jpg|288x251px|Zacharias]]
|-   
| A roundel embattled of swallow-tailed merlons as a mark of Ghibelline allegiance? A sun with swallow-tailed rays eclipsed azure and charged with a castle or a bridge of two towers?
| Passant over rampant? Or just rampants drawn funny to fill the space?
| Arrows between demi-arrows?
|}

==Gyronny fimbriated, annulet counterchanged over gyronny==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:UniverseelWapenboek_c1558_KM1074_%261076_GyronnyFimbriated.jpg|379x220px|center|Universeel]] 
| [[File:BSB274_f120r_1550_DiAliprandis.jpg|256x384px|BSB]] 
|-
| "Gyronny of 8 gules and azure fimbriated Or" vs "Gyronny of 8 gules and azure, a fillet cross and fillet saltire Or" vs ?
| Not necessarily SCA-legal, depending on the blazon. A roundel counter-changed charged with roundel gules charged with wing argent - would constitute 4 layers, non-registerable. A roundel gules fimbriated counterchanged charged with a wing argent - would be 3 layers.
|}

==Feather duster, mutant maunch, pommeled at the foot==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:WappenbuchGrunenburg1602-04_570.jpg|center|Wappenbuch]] 
| [[File:Arlberg_p76_1548_mystery.jpg|Wappenbuch]]
| [[File:Arlberg_p361_1548_cross.jpg|Wappenbuch]]
|-
| Feather duster? Feather fan? Cotton ball? Palm tree? Artichoke/thistle?</span>
| A maunch? Mutant flaunch? A demi-fleur?
| A cross formy double-pommeled at the foot?
|}

==Pommerian rune/cross==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:Siebmacher_plate12-cammin-chamin.jpg|Siebmacher,]]
|-
| Siebmacher, Plate 12, Bishop of Chamin (Cammin)
|- 
|  Pommerian rune, Camminer cross, cross of Cammin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishopric_of_Cammin

http://www.armorial.dk/german/Richental.pdf

"an inverted F superimposed on a T"

" a Tau cross with the sinister cross-limb folded downward at the end, and the lower limb conjoined to a potent in dexter" 
|}


==Italian moustaches, bones, nails, crutches==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:BSB272_f59r_1550-55.jpg|300x480px|Insignia]] 
| Bonaldo - moustaches? brackets? flint steels? horseshoes? spurs without the pokey bit? and note the orientation!
Bonanisegna #1 - Gules semy of bones? scrolls?, three bendlets argent.

Bonanisegna #2 - Bendy gules and argent, semy of passion nails (spear heads?) sable

Bonanisegna #3 - <span style="line-height: 1.5;">Gules semy of crutches (stirrups? spurs?), three bendlets argent.
|}


==Firedogs, bolt, electron field==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:BSB391_f_1530_Firedogs.jpg|Sammelband]]
| [[File:BSB278 f166r Catenatcci.jpg|256x326px|center|BSB]] 
| [[File:Arlberg_p57-237_1548_mystery.jpg|Wappenbuch]] 
|-
| Firedogs
| Bolt (canting name)<
| Electron field? Oil press? Pestle? Double-handed pigment grinder? Lace bobbin?
|}

==Hamster wheel, sausage grinder, stop sign==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:Bellenville_f70_14thC.jpg|165x318px]] 
| [[File:BSB390_f715_DieHirndt.jpg|223x350px|center|Wappenbuch]]
| [[File:Arlberg_1548_stophand.jpg|372x348px|Wappenbuch]]  
|-
| Medieval winch? Hamster/dog wheel? Ships wheel? Yarn winder? Wind mill?
| Horizontal butter churn,  Cheese maker? Sausage grinder? ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_churn]] )?  Wappenbuch des Heiligen Römischen Reiches - BSB 390, Nürnberg, 1554 - 1568, folio 715
| "In red, silver octagon, on it a silver hand/glove" according to Harwick Arch.
|}

==Drunken roundel, American eagle, rugby football==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:Arlberg_p849_1548_drunkenroundel.jpg|Wappenbuch]]
| [[File:Arlberg_1548_barrulets.jpg|Wappenbuch]] 
|[[File:Arlberg_p570_1548_football.jpg|222x360px|Wappenbuch]] 
|-
| A roundel wavy?
| Argent, a falcon rising atop a trimount azure between two barrulets embowed to chief gules, the trimount issuant from the lower barrulet.
| A cartouche pointed aka mandorla? a fusil? a lense?
|}

==Arlberg-Brudershaft Oddities==
{| class="wikitable"
| [[File:Arlberg_1548_sticks.jpg|720x216px|Wappenbuch]] 
|-
| Wappenbuch der Arlberg-Brudershaft, 1548
|-
| <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;">726 Ott Fleming: Sable, two batons headed of chevrons couped in saltire Or (vs. spear/unfletched arrows).</span>

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;">767 Jorg Zyl: Per pale azure and argent, two batons headed of chevrons couped in saltire counterchanged</span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;"> (vs. spear/unfletched arrows).</span>

<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;">794: Cherboy: Sable, a cross between four batons headed of chevrons inverted argent (vs. broadheads).</span>

<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;">794: Bursckrafft: Gules, two batons headed at each end of trefoils in saltire Or (vs. saltire/salterelle bottony).</span>

<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;">841 Ammy: Gules, two batons headed of pomegranates/poppies/rosehips/onions in saltire argent.</span> 

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