>I can't find 'cardpique' anywhere, actually, so I can't say. If it's
>something that's on top of the billet, it should work in later
>European heraldry when they had to relax the strictures of go insane.
>Under the earlier ones, you can't put metal on metal (argent and or
>(white and yellow/silver and gold) or tincture on tincture.
>

Its the spade shape off of playing cards. And yes, that's the proper term, I asked my local herald about it while I was active in the SCA.

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