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2 unusual facts about Tincture


Carl Warburg

He was the inventor of 'Warburg's Tincture', a medicine well known in the 19th century for treating fevers, including malaria.

Herbal tea

Tincture, the often more concentrated plant extracts made in pure grain alcohol, glycerin, or vinegar


Argent

White does seem to be regarded as a different tincture from argent in Portuguese heraldry, as evidenced by the arms of municipal de Santiago do Cacém in Portugal, in which the white of the fallen Moor's clothing and the knight's horse is distinguished from the argent of the distant castle, and in the arms of the Logistical and Administrative Command of the Portuguese Air Force.

Coat of arms of Oxford

The crest shows a lion, which despite its tincture is supposed to be the English lion, obvious as it is crowned with an imperial crown.

Coat of arms of the Department of Magdalena

It has a tincture of azure, but in variant versions the field changes of tincture on both chief and base; in the modern version, the azure or blue represent Magdalena River and the Caribbean Sea.

Hillesheim, Mainz-Bingen

In Ludwig Roselius’s Coffee Hag albums from the early 20th century, Hillesheim’s arms are shown in somewhat different tinctures.

Schutz, Germany

The chief showing a gold fess dancetty (horizontal zigzag stripe) on a red field is a rendering of the arms formerly borne by the Counts of Manderscheid, although the tinctures are reversed (this might be to comply with the general rule in heraldry that holds that two colours or two metals must not touch).

Vair

As a tincture, vair is considered a fur and is therefore exempted from the Rule of tincture (i.e. it can be placed upon a metal, a colour, or both).


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