File talk:Zeme-herbas.png

This image was scanned from the 2005 book "Heraldry: past to present". The illustrator in that book is creditted as Algis Kliševičius, who is not the person who uploaded this image. This looks like a copyvio. --EncycloPetey 00:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a scan; it was redrawn based on the images now available at Žemaitija. At the time it was posted, SVG was not widely used yet, so it was exported to PNG with the dithering that causes the issue described under #Blazon below. I have not been able to locate the original vector file (CorelDraw) to convert to SVG. --Theodore Kloba (talk) 11:58, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Blazon[edit]

What is the blazon of these arms? It may be a colour-on-colour violation, but not if it's blazoned "A black bear proper". --Daniel C. Boyer 14:54, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The blazon appears in quoted the article Sable (heraldry). Rimša (Lithuania's chief herald) blazons it in his book Heraldry: past to present as "a black bear with an argent chain on its neck on a field gules" (p.115, pl.211), and the original is much, much darker black than the scanned version would indicate. No mention is made anywhere in the blazon of "proper". This is taken from the English edition, and you are welcome to look up the original Lithuanian edition if you like. --EncycloPetey 23:48, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]