Sword, Knife, Dagger

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Illustrations:

Period source/s:

Blatt80rHausbuchMendelschenTrenket1459.jpg
Merdein Swob, trenket (shoemaker's/cordwainer's knife). 1459 From the Das Hausbuch der Mendelschen (Blatt 80r), (Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg).
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/SHOEMAKER/shoemaker.htm

Modern

Pictorial Dictionary of SCA Heraldry (3rd edition):

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

Period Armorials


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Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.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)

October 2014 LoAR - first instance of a trenket:

William filius Willelmi de Wyke. Badge. (Fieldless) A trenket fesswise sable. A trenket is a cordwainer's knife. This submission was pended on the May 2014 LoAR to discuss the registerability of this depiction. http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2014/10/14-10lar.html

December 1975: sword embrued (dripping with blood):

Benson of Stannington registered in December of 1975:

  • Per pale azure and argent, a sword proper, embrued.

http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/1975/12/lar.html

Registerability:

(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)

Conflict:

Identifiability:

Collected Precedents:


In the Ordinary

(includes blade, cinquedea, claidheamh mor, claymore, corsica, dagger, dirk, estoc, falchion, fauchard, flamberge, gladius, katana, knife, kris, rapier, saber, sabre, scabbard, scimitar, seax, shamshir, skene)