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Drawn from the blazon

lionchêneétoilelioncroissant

Approximate rendering

blazon partially parsed (method lenient_en)

Birkenhead, Town of

commune·lenient_en·Burke (General Armory)

Blazon

Quarterly, or and argent on a cross gules between in the first quarter, a lion passant of the last; in the second, an oak tree issuant from a mount proper; in the third, an estoile azure ; and in the fourth, two lions passant of the third, a crozier in pale of the first, and two crescents in fesse of the second

Tinctures

argent (charge)
argent (field)
azur (charge)
gueules (charge)
gueules (ordinary)
or (field)

Charges

chêne (meuble)
croissant (meuble)
croix (ordinary)
étoile (meuble)
lion (meuble)
Parsed structure (AST)
{
  "field": {
    "tincture": {
      "name": "or",
      "category": "metal"
    },
    "partition": "écartelé",
    "sub_fields": [
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "or",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      },
      {
        "tincture": {
          "name": "argent",
          "category": "metal"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "charges": [
    {
      "name": "croix",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "ordinary",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "gueules",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "du dernier",
        "category": "",
        "reference": "du dernier"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "passant"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "chêne",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble"
    },
    {
      "name": "étoile",
      "count": 1,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "azur",
        "category": "colour"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "lion",
      "count": 2,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "du troisième",
        "category": "",
        "reference": "du troisième"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "en pal",
        "passant"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "croissant",
      "count": 2,
      "category": "meuble",
      "tincture": {
        "name": "du second",
        "category": "",
        "reference": "du second"
      },
      "attitudes": [
        "en fasce"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "is_compound": true
}

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