Tilting-spears
A fact not widely known: the crossed axes in my family's arms:
are a reference to the arms of George Shum, who was my father's father's mother's father's father's father: Azure on a saltire argent fimbriated gules two tilting-spears in saltire or, headed proper. Crest — A cock reguardant proper collared or, from the collar a buglehorn pendent gold. (In other words, two gold spears in an X-shaped cross on a silver X-shaped cross with a red border, with a blue background.) Of course we have no right at all to George Shum's arms since they're English arms and we descend from him through a woman-- though in Canada the rules are more egalitarian and permit inheritance of designs through the female line-- but it seemed worthwhile to commemorate him in the design.
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