Coat of arms of Sands

The blazon

or, a fesse, indented, ( another, dancettee,) betw. three cross crosslets, fitchee, gu. — Crest, a grifiin, segreant, per fesse, or and gu. [Borne hy the Reverend Edward Sandys, Rector of Upper Hardres, near Canterbury, Kent, 1823.] See Plate of Arms.

A blazon is the description of a coat of arms in the technical language of heraldry. The drawing comes from that text, and from nothing else.