Denomination (heraldry)

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Speicherersdorf coat of arms with sixteen red and silver border

The denomination is a common form in heraldry , a herald's image , especially by changing tincture , to put in the coat of arms and to achieve a modification of the basic image of beam , post and board . In the description it is described with embossed . Here color and metal must alternate. Put together means put together.

This representation is used in the heraldic images of beams, stakes and borders. Short pieces of the same length are colored in two different tinctures. According to the color rule, color and metal alternate. The number of differences must be mentioned in the description of the coat of arms . There may be other mean figures in these pieced sections.

  • Denominations on the shelf with common figures

  • Denomination in the sloping bar (six times white-red streaked)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1984, p. 159.