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- From: Suze.Hammond@f56.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Suze Hammond)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Heraldic questions...
- Message-ID: <725603045.AA00000@therose.pdx.com>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 06:41:00 GMT
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- "B> From: "Andrea B. Gansley-Ortiz" <ag1v+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- "B> Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- "B> Pittsburgh, PA
- "B>
- "B> Good people, I recommend me to you. Tadhg writes:
- "B>
- "B> T> One of Laurel's oft-repeated maxims is "We follow the general
- "B> T> practices,
- "B> T> not the exceptions", and red bends and chiefs on blue fields were
- "B> T> exceptions, not general practices; considered in the context of
- "B> T> western
- "B> T> European heraldry as a whole, regional practices such as green
- "B> T> mounts on
- "B> T> blue fields, however much they may have been the height of fashion
- "B> T> in
- "B> T> Hungary or wherever, were still exceptions rather than general
- "B> T> practices.
- "B>
- "B> T> I have made a modest contribution in that directio with my "Ten
- "B> T> Word
- "B> T> Blazon Test", the rationale for which is "if they did it a lot,
- "B> T> they had a
- "B> T> term for it; if it takes you a lot of words to describe it, then
- "B> T> they
- "B> T> didn't have a term for it, and so they probably didn't do it a lot,
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- He means like "azur, a chief gules"? "Azur, a mount vert"? Seems to pass his
- test just as neat as a pin, to me. :-)
-
- "B> What the rules are there for is to make a herald's job easier for
- "B> judging
- "B> a submission as a period design. If the submitter gives evidence to
- "B> support
- "B> a different period standard, then that device should be accepted and
- "B> maybe
- "B> a rules change is in order.
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- Amen, Esmeralda. Especially when the "exception" meets his own "rule" of
- good style. ;->
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- Moreach NicMhaolain
- No herald in particular...
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