[Ansteorra] Youth Combat Heraldry Badge Question

[Chiara Francesca]

Um, yeah, what he said. I made it for one event and it got a request for another event and the image took off from there for good or bad. (search the Ansteorran mailing list archive for the full story)

I can send you whatever you need but I strongly suggest that you work with a herald to create something that all our Youth would be proud to display. My heraldry foo has long gone dormant. There are far more talented folks that would be more than happy to help you. :)


And Coblaith, here is the correct spelling of my name: 

♫
Baronessa Chiara Francesca Arianna d'Onofrio
:D


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ansteorra-bounces+chiara.francesca=gmail.com at lists.ansteorra.org
> [mailto:ansteorra-
> bounces+chiara.francesca=gmail.com at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of
> Coblaith Muimnech
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:01 PM
> To: Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Youth Combat Heraldry Badge Question
> 
> Pooky wrote:
> > Would anyone know where to point me to find a bigger picture of the
> > Youth Combat Heraldry Badge, then the one I found under officers at
> > Ansteorra dot org website?
> 
> Chiara Fracesca, when she was Kingdom Virtual Scribe, created an
> image featuring a child all in white marching against a black
> Ansteorran star on a yellow background and used it on the kingdom
> website where you might expect to see the kingdom or Society badge of
> a children's officer <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/heralds-
> ansteorra.org/2007-May/011907.html>.  It looks like the graphic
> currently next to "Youth Combat" at <http://www.ansteorra.org/
> officers.php> consists of the badge of the Earl Marshal of the
> S.C.A., "Sable, two swords in saltire Or," with the swords pushed to
> sinister chief and a roundel bearing the non-heraldic "marching
> child" design inserted at dexter base.  It's not the badge of
> anything, and it never could be.  (It's got too many layers <http://
> heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/rfs.html#8.1>, for one thing, and
> the child isn't in an appropriate heraldic posture <http://
> heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/rfs.html#8.4>.)
> 
> > Me finding it is of course very important in regard to a project of
> > DREAM Building.
> 
> 
> Its designer may have a copy of the "marching child" graphic, and it
> would be easy enough to recreate the design on the officers' list
> from that.  But it's got no more or less validity as a reference to
> youth combat than any decorative motif you might find in, say, a book
> of clipart.
> 
> If you're looking to decorate a prize box or create an award scroll
> or something, you might consider using a period image instead.  MS.
> Bodl. 264 <http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?
> collection=bodleian&manuscript=msbodl264>, for instance, has bas de
> page illustrations showing kids with shields whacking each other with
> sticks (folios 91r and 108v), as well as kids jousting while mounted
> on dogs (50r), playing with bows and arrows (51v), riding against
> quintains mounted on pull-carts (72v), and enjoying a wide variety of
> other games and sports.
> 
> 
> Coblaith Muimnech
> <mailto:Coblaith at sbcglobal.net>
> <http://coblaith.net>
> 
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