Talk: Coat of Arms of Poland

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Alternative version of the image (from Polish Prime Ministers' site). Halibutt 00:22, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Coat of Arms

Rosettes

Polish wikipedia says: Powszechnie mniemano, że rozety (brane za pięcioramienne gwiazdki) na skrzydłach orła także były "sowieckim wynalazkiem", ale w rzeczywistości powstały one w wyniku niedokładnego skopiowania wzoru z 1927. I think we should decide if it was done on purpose or not and appropriately correct the article.Przepla 14:31, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I don't think we need to decide. The fact is that they changed the rosettes to a more star-shaped thingie. Perhaps it needs a little explanation, but we won't find any sources that would say "we did it on purpose" or the contrary. Halibutt 21:36, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Blazon

I think that describing eagle as 'white' is mistake. I never heard of exception for polish CoA. In my opinion it should blazoned as 'Gules an eagle displayed Argent crowned and armed Or'. --Gopher78 21:20, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Not really, this is one of the exceptions since the eagle itself is called Orzeł Biały ("White Eagle" or rather "Eagle White", if one translates the inversion as well) in both common language and heraldry. Also, note that Polish heraldry uses a slightly different blazon system, with colours much less limited to the "standard seven" used in Great Britain or France. Halibutt 21:53, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)