ES - Heraldic question

[Padraig Ruad]

Ermine is actually a fur, and is depicted as a repeated stylized fur, black on a white background.

For an excellent SCA Heraldry resource page, go to http://www.pipcom.com/~thule/heraldry/index.html

Click on the headings in the frame on the right hand side of the page to see information on that subject.  For example, to see the information on ermine, click on "Tinctures" and then scroll down to the information on "Furs".

Padraig
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---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Rhonda New" <rbnew at ftw.nrcs.usda.gov>
Reply-To: elfsea at ansteorra.org
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:55:18 -0600

>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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