Shoulder cut

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The shoulder cut (also oblique cut) and the corner cut (also miter cut) are each a heraldic image in heraldry and divide the shield by an oblique cut into two coats of arms , which must differ in color according to the heraldic rules. The straight line of intersection of the shoulder section extending from heraldisch top right corner of the plate from the edge / plate head according heraldisch the bottom left to the sign edge / sign foot . The corner cut runs from top left to bottom right.

Both terms are rarely used in the more recent description of the coat of arms , because the division is blasonized to the right or to the left.

  • Shoulder cut

  • Corner cut

literature

  • Christian Samuel Theodor Bernd: The main pieces of coat of arms science. Volume 2, author and Eduard Weber, Bonn 1849, p. 95.
  • Johann Octavian Salver: Samples of the high Teütschen Reichs nobility, or collections of old monuments, gravestones, coats of arms, inscriptions and originals, etc. Verlag des Author, Nuremberg 1775, pp. 95, 96.