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I also had a heraldic wall in Google+ the social network created and closed by Google. Google + taught us that we should not put all our efforts into a single social network.

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Categories: Technology, Social networks, Tower, Ordered, Or, Port and windows and Azure.

Pavel Pavlovich von Winkler, «Russian Heraldry: History and Description of Russian Coats of Arms with Illustrations of All the Coats of Arms of the Nobility, included in the General Armorial of the Russian Empire», printed by Typography and Lithography of I. A. Efron, Prachechny Passage, Building 6, 3 volumes, Volume 1, year 1892, 59 pages, 275 illustrations, includes a preface to the first volume, an index, basics of heraldry, and an armorial, Volume 2, year 1894, 71 pages, 302 illustrations, includes a preface to the second volume, an index, and an armorial, Volume 3, year 1894, 71 pages, 326 illustrations, includes a preface to the third volume, an index, and an armorial, St. Petersburg, 1892, 1894.

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Description

This work by Pavel Pavlovich von Winkler is a comprehensive three-volume series on Russian heraldry, exploring the history and detailed descriptions of Russian coats of arms.

The first volume includes an introduction to heraldry, making it accessible to readers new to the subject. Each volume expands on specific aspects of Russian heraldry, providing an analysis and cataloging of various coats of arms throughout Russia's history.

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Bibliographical reference of century XIX.

Classification: Armorial roll, Russian language and In black and white.

Author: Winkler, Pavel Pavlovich von.

Internal resources: WinklerPvon1892.Tomo.01 Pdf format, WinklerPvon1894.Tomo.02 Pdf format and WinklerPvon1894.Tomo.03 Pdf format.

A Castle Or, triple towered, embattled, port and windows Azure, and masoned Sable.

Un castillo de oro, aclarado de azur, mazonado de sable.

Some of the characteristics of the Castilian castle are specified in the coat of arms in English, for example, «triple towered, embattled», but they are omitted in the Spanish blason, because the Spanish blason considered that the Castilian castle can not be otherwise. These local characteristics, that decades ago were not necessary to specify, could begin to have to be in this global and interconnected heraldic world. [Valero de Bernabé, L.; 2009a] describe the different characteristics between the Castilian, the French, and the English castles among others.

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Blazon keywords: Castle, Or, Port and windows, Azure, Masoned and Sable.

Style keywords: Freehand.

Classification: Schema.

All these blazons are equal two by two, except one blazon without a partner.

Which one is the single blazon?

This is an heraldic riddle based on the arms of Vittorio Gifra, «Paly of six Azure and Or; over all a bend Azure.», painted the very first, row 1 and column 1.

Think before you move the cursor or click on the following link and see the solution.

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Categories: Riddle, Semi-circular, Pointed, Triangular curved, Ogee, Rounded, Outlined in sable, Freehand, Paly, Six, Surmounted, Overall (deprecated), Bend, Azure, Vert and Or.

Root: Gifra, Vittorio.

Publication on the blog Twelve Lineages of Soria about the armorial I produced for the ISCH under the title: The eminent heraldist Mr. Antonio Salmerón Cabañas brings us his latest edition of February 25, 2018 of the Roll of Arms of the International Society of Commoners Heraldry ISCH.

This armorial contains coats of arms painted by different heraldic artists, although all those shown in the illustration heading this article were painted by my own hand.

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Categories: Link, Gules, Azure, Vert, Sable, Purpure, Or, Argent, Without divisions, Gyronny, Party per pale, Quarterly, Bend, Saltire, Bordure, Chevron, Cross, Pile, Bendlet, Inescutcheon, Chequey, Hurt, torteau, pellet, pomme and golpe, Cadency, Thistle, Fleur de lis, Horse, Crown, Sun in splendour, Martlet, Wolf, Letter, Unicorn, Griffin, Dragon's head and Engouled.

Root: Twelve Lineages of Soria.

Publication of my interpretation of the arms of Ugnius Mikucionis, on the blog Twelve Lineages of Soria with the article titled: The eminent heraldist Mr. Antonio Salmerón Cabañas interprets the coat of arms of Ugnius Mikucionis (Lithuania and Norway).

Blazon in Spanish by Alfonso de Ceballos-Escalera y Gila, Chronicler of Arms of Castile and León, from his certification of arms: «Vert, a Latin cross made of a wooden staff, raguly, from whose sinister flank issues a leafy branch that encircles the cross from above and entwines over its base, all Or. Crested with a steel helmet affronty, torse Or and Vert, with mantling Vert doubled Or. For crest, the same raguly Latin cross, branched and leafed, Or, placed before two wings Vert».

Blazon in English by The South African Bureau of Heraldry, from its certification of arms: «Vert, a wooden staff, its upper end terminating in a Latin cross, raguly, couped at random, issuant from its sinister nombril point a leaved offshoot encircling the cross, its end terminating and debruising the lower limb Or. Crest: In front of a pair of wings displayed Vert, a wooden staff issuant, its upper end terminating in a Latin cross, raguly, couped at random, issuant from its sinister nombril point a leaved offshoot encircling the cross, its end terminating and debruising the lower limb Or. Wreath and mantling: Vert and Or». I do not agree with the specification of the exact place of origin of the branch, the «nombril point» ~ «navel», because that point of origin does not distinguish this coat of arms from another where the branch could emerge at a different height, either closer or further from the point of the shield, and because it forces the artistic interpretation to either break the rule of fullness or to draw a curved branch in a panache shape to allow it to open before gaining height.

Note how in the Spanish certification of arms, by the Chronicler of Arms of Castile and León, this unnecessary nombril specification as the origin point of the branch is omitted.

The nombril is the exact crossing point of the vertical axis of symmetry of the shield with the lower edge of the bend.

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Categories: Link, Vert, One, Cross, Raguly, Sinister, Or, Helm, Wreath, Mantling, Crest, Two, Wing and At the nombril.

Root: Twelve Lineages of Soria.

Publication of my creation of the arms corresponding to the title Marquess of Casa Portocarrero, Royal House of Georgia, on the blog Twelve Lineages of Soria quoting me as follows: My design and artistic creation of the coat of arms of the Marquess of Casa Portocarrero.

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Categories: Link, Or, Azure, Chequey, Gules, Argent, Bordure, Compony, Dragon, Winged, Couchant and Double queued.

Root: Twelve Lineages of Soria.

There are several methods to draw a pointed coat of arms, for example, the method of [The Heraldry Society; 2013; page 7]. There are also several pointed coat of arms with the ratio 5/6 between its width b and its height h.

The previous illustation shows my method to draw a 5/6 pointed coat of arms. The center Cd of the dexter arc is 17h/36 = 17b/30 from the top of the shield and its radious is 13h/24 = 13b/20, or what is the same, its diameter is 13h/12 = 13b/10.

The position of the Cs of the sinister arc and its construction is symmetric to the dexter arc with respect to the vertical axis, as shown in the following illustration.

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Style keywords: Freehand and Pointed.

Classification: Schema.

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