Heraldry simplified; a popular treatise on the subject of heraldry, together with a glossary of technical terms, and nearly two hundred drawings (1899)
Curtis, Frederick · New York, Dodge Pub. Co. · leaf 30
r. If a charge animate or inanimate is representedof its natural color, as a polar bear, it is described asbeing proper instead of argent or silver; if a brownbear (there not being an equivalent color), it is des-cribed as proper, but if a black bear, then it is givenits heraldic term, sable. Care… … Gules in chief, a mullet argent between twobezants. 29 Amongst the proper charges most used are theRouNDLEs or RouNDLETS, flat plates that vary inname according to their color (see plate XIII.) The most frequently used Heraldic charges areshown on Plates XIV. and XV. GuTTES or drops are ditFerently…
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