User talk:Tamfang/blazons

Trélex: Gules, a —— Or.

Dear Tamfang

Have just been having a look at blazons.

The strange object looks very like a 'vannet' - a basket used for winnowing grain. Occurs in the arms of Robert de Setvans (died c 1253) - The colour of heraldry The Heraldry Society, 1958, plate 6. Also appears in the coat of Rothfield in the Scots Public Register, vol 28, p 5.

Entry for 'Van, Vane' in Elvin; his entry for 'vannet' gives it as an earless scallop, and I have seen the very occasional French coat with an escallop blazoned as a vannet. In Old French the Dictionnaire Godefroy has it as a 'petit van', and modern French 'van', 'vannet' = AGRIC. Panier plat (généralement en osier) à deux anses dont on se servait naguère pour séparer la paille et la poussière du bon grain en les projetant en l'air par de petites secousses répétées = winnowing basket (http://www.lexilogos.com/francais_langue_dictionnaires.htm).

I guess it would be safe to blazon the -- in 'Trélex: Gules, a —— Or' as a vannet

Mich Taylor (talk) 17:13, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! —Tamfang (talk) 17:31, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]