Waiting sign
When waiting sign in will Heraldry an empty plate or a blank field in the arms referred. The field or the sign can be displayed in white at most, but preferably in a neutral background color. It was and is sense to have a place on the coat of arms for an event that changes the coat of arms in advance. Reasons were, for example, special fiefdoms to be expected , assumptions of office (treasurer degrees), elections or nobility. If an expected change of the coat of arms occurred, the upper coat of arms was occasionally extended with a helmet and corresponding ornament.
To speak of a single sign or field when referring to the waiting sign , as was often the case in the past, is not heraldically correct. The single shield has no heraldic figures , but is fixed with tinging , while everything on the waiting shield is empty.
literature
- Wolfgang Menzel: Literature sheet number 67. Paul Reff, Stuttgart 1862, p. 265
- Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry. Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1984, p. 438
Web links
- Wartschild in the Heraldry Wiki