ANSTHRLD - fieldless badge help please

becky demonja wyrdling at swbell.net
Sun Mar 25 21:29:57 PST 2001


I was asking if a fieldless badge argent was visibly the same as a colorless
badge.  An idea I am working on is a fieldless badge argent.  Working on
white paper I was thinking it looked colorless.  Something if I remember
right we don't do.  Thank you for the reply

----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy A. McDaniel" <tmcd at jump.net>
To: <heralds at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 23:26
Subject: Re: ANSTHRLD - fieldless badge help please


> Ms. Demonja, may I please ask you to use standard English spellings --
> in particular, spelling "and" with a "d"?  It's sort of hard to
> read your messages.
>
> > Is a fieldless badge argent tincturless?
>
> I'm afraid that that sentence makes no sense.  Is there an "or" missing
> between "argent" and "tinctureless", maybe?
>
> A fieldless badge (in the SCA, only badges can be fieldless) is
> a set of charges on an undefined background.  For example, I
> registered
>     (Fieldless) A mascle gules.
> When I draw it on my goblet or box or CDs or whatever, I can draw it
> on a silver background, a gold background, an ermine background ... or
> green or purple or black or even red, though it would be hard to see
> then.
>
> Note that I distinguish "registered" and "draw".  I registered it with
> an undefined background.  When I use it, I have to put it on
> *something*, so I can choose whatever I like.
>
>     Argent, a mascle gules.
> would be a different badge.  (1 CD away, but that makes it different.)
> In that case, I would have to put the mascle on a white or silver
> background only.
>
> As Tec mentioned, you can't do tinctureless.
>
> Daniel de Lincolia
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