Tincture (heraldry) as the field upon which they rest, with the colours reversed. In the municipal arms of Behnsdorf, Saxony-Anhalt, seen at right, the field is divided with the left half white (argent) and the right half green (vert), and the counterchanged tree is green where it lies on the white part of the field, and white where it lies on the green part. The flag of Maryland is another example of counterchanging. The only U.S. state flag to be directly based on English heraldry, it is the arms of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, who founded the colony of Maryland in
Tincture (heraldry) Coat of Arms. An example of "colour on colour" is the arms of Albania, with its sable two-headed eagle on a gules field. The "rule of tincture" has had an influence reaching far beyond heraldry. It has been applied to the design of flags, so that the flag of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was modified to conform to the rule. When a charge or group of charges is placed across a division line, variation, or ordinary, it may be "counterchanged" (Fr. "contre-changé", but modern "de l'un en l'autre", Ger. "verwechselte Farben" or "verschränkte Farben"), meaning that the charges are divided the same way