ES - Heraldic question

Adam Harrison hookshot at startext.net
Fri Dec 15 12:04:01 PST 2000


If I remember correctly, Ermine is white with little black dot thingys(yes
that is a technical term) on it...  It is supposed to represent an ermine
pelt.

Argent can be silver or white, I belive.

-Bjorn



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-elfsea at ansteorra.org [mailto:owner-elfsea at ansteorra.org]On
Behalf Of Rhonda New
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 1:55 PM
To: elfsea at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: ES - Heraldic question


Argent = silver
Ermin = white

/Ly Elizabeth Hawkwood
(if I'm wrong, someone please correct us all!)

Lady Genevieve wrote:

> Tomas--
>
>    I'm really heraldically ignorant.   What is the difference between
argent
> and ermine?  And would it help if we changed the decrescent to an
> increscent?  Would that still conflict?
> Thanks for the advice!
>
> Genevieve del Gamba
>
> >Another possibility could be to change the Argant tinctures to Ermine
which
> >would accomplish the same 2 CDs while maintaining the general color
scheme.
> >
> >Tomas
> >
> >> The easiest change might be to change all the argent tinctures to
> >> Or. This would give two CDs from the original conflict. However, I
> >> have not yet conflict checked the resulting arms. I will try to do
> >> so by tonight. Would this combination be acceptable to you?
> >>
> >> Caelin
>

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