Shield Showing Fess

Gules, two bars, argent. The bar is formed in the same manner as the fess, but it only occupies the fifth part of the field. It differs from the fess, that ordinary being always placed in the centre of the field; but the bar may be placed in any part of it, and there may be more than one bar in an escutcheon. -Hall, 1862

Keywords

shield, heraldry, coat of arms, argent, azure, horizontal lines, escutcheon, ordinary, fess, honorable ordinary

Galleries

Heraldry, Ordinaries

Source

Hall, Arthur The Manual of Heraldry (London, England: J. S. Virtue & Co., 1862)

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