ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 980
http://www.s-gabriel.org/980
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12 Jun 1998
From:  (Josh Mittleman)


Greetings from the Academy of Saint Gabriel!

You asked for information about a charge division which looks like "per
bend" with a playing card spade sprouting from each side of the line of
division.  Here is what we have found.

As you suspected, this division is found in German heraldry.  Analogous
designs were used in period, albeit perhaps only in late period.  The arms
you found in Fox-Davies are probably those of Ortlieb (of Nuernberg) "Per
bend gules and argent, two linden leaves in bend sinister stems issuant
from the line of division" [2].

A German roll of arms from 1605 has several lines of division which sprout
leaves [1]:

  Die Hilinger "Per chevron ploye argent and gules, a trefoil issuant to
    base from the tip, flanked by two trefoils issuant to chief
    counterchanged." (f.96) 

  von Hermbsdorf "Per chevron ploye argent and gules, a linden leaf gules
  issuant to chief at the tip." (f.81)

  Rumpff (2nd and 3rd quarter) "Per bend Or and sable, two trefoils in bend
    sinister issuant from the line of division counterchanged. (f.24)

In case your herald wants a precedent for using this design in Society
armory, you can tell him that it has been registered at least twice:

  Jannequinne Richardot "Per bend sinister Or and vert, two trefoils in
    bend, slips issuant from the line of division, counterchanged.  

  Winifred de Schyppewallebotham "Per bend Or and purpure, two linden
    leaves in bend sinister, stem issuant from the line of division, within
    a bordure counterchanged."

I hope this letter has been useful.  Please write us again if any part of
it has been unclear or if you have other questions.  I was assisted in
researching and writing this letter by Zenobia Naphtali, Elsbeth Anne Roth,
and Talan Gwynek.

For the Academy,


  Arval Benicoeur
  20 May 1998


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References

[1] Siebmacher, Johann, _Dem Wappenbuch_, 2 vols, Horst Appuhn ed.
(Dortmund: Harenberg Kommunikation, 2nd ed., 1989). 

[2] Woodward, John and George Burnett, _A Treatise on Heraldry British and
Foreign_ (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1969), p.321.

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