Michel von Alterstetten bears: Per pale sable and Or, four broadaxes two and two counterchanged. Roger Carpenter of Rye bears: Or, in pale a carpenter’s axe reversed and a carpenter’s square, point to base, and on a chief azure three annulets Or. Karl vom Acht bears: Gules, a labrys argent bearing two horns issuant from the haft and curving to meet the blades Or.ĭynadan do Pico bears: Quarterly Or and argent, in saltire two headsman’s axes and dependent from the junction a hangman’s noose sable, all within a bordure gules. James of Prussia bears: Sable, a francisque palewise argent, to the sinister a dagger palewise argent. Richard of the Fens bears: Per chevron vert and Or, six battle-axes counterchanged.Īdelhardt Werner bears: Per pale purpure and Or, a double-bitted axe counterchanged. ![]() Sefferey of Wessex bears: Gules, three axes argent. ![]() Sean Ruabarua MacGillaphaidraic bears: Vert, an axe Or. The Thrown Weapons Marshallate bears: Sable, two axes in saltire surmounted by a spear Or. ![]() Of axe variants unique to Society armory, there are the “hatchet” or “hand-axe”, with a plain head and a proportionally shorter haft the “francisque”, a hand-axe with an angled head, made for throwing (used mainly for a cant) the “labrys”, a ceremonial double-bladed axe from ancient Crete the “woodsman’s axe”, also called the “felling axe”, which is fairly plain and the “headsman’s axe”, also called the “slaughterer’s axe”, also quite plain.įor related charges, see adze, fasces, pick, pole-arm.
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