[ANSTHRLD] Order of the Keepers of the Cross of Bonwicke - Baronial Service Award
Timothy A. McDaniel
tmcd at jump.net
Mon Sep 10 23:01:22 PDT 2001
Cahira asked:
> in addition, is there a way to register the device if it's as
> described previously, with one exception: leave off the laurel
> leaves?
Laurel wreaths. Laurel leaves alone are OK. A laurel wreath without
leaves is unregisterable; I dimly recall that there was an old return
of a banana slug vorant of a laurel wreath, and a later attempt by the
same group with the slug "eyeing speculatively a laurel wreath in
canton". Can't find the thing, tho.
Anyway. The Rules for Submission's new XI.4 says
4. Arms of Pretense and Augmentations of Honor - Armory that uses
charges in such a way as to appear to be arms of pretense or an
unearned augmentation of honor is considered presumptuous.
Period and modern heraldic practice asserts a claim to land or
property by surmounting an individual's usual armory with a
display of armory associated with that claim. Such arms of
pretense are placed on an escutcheon. Similarly, an augmentation
of honor often, though not necessarily, takes the form of an
independent coat placed on an escutcheon or canton. Generally,
therefore, a canton or a single escutcheon may only be used if it
is both uncharged and of a single tincture. For example,
"Argent, a fess gules surmounted by an escutcheon sable charged
with a roundel argent" has the appearance of being arms of
pretense or an augmentation. "Or, in saltire five escutcheons
sable each charged with three roundels argent" does not have this
appearance, as it has multiple escutcheons, as so is acceptable.
The exception to the restrictions of this rule is when the
submitter is entitled to an augmentation as described in RfS
VIII.7, Augmentations of Honor.
The new VIII.7 defines an augmentation as
7. Augmentations of Honor - An augmentation of honor must be
compatible with period armorial style.
An augmentation is an honor bestowed by the crown, taking the
form of an addition or alteration to the honoree's device. While
the right to an augmentation is bestowed by the crown, its form
is subject to the normal registration process.
Note: "device", not "badge".
You could do something like a cross with, say, overall on the ends of
each arms 4 escutcheons of Bonwicke without laurel wreaths ("Per pale
Or and gules, a pale indented counterchanged"). In terms of period
practice, I would characterize such a badge as "a dog's breakfast".
Daniel "A few lines down from Bonwicke in the Armorial is Boo H{o/}g,
reg. 11/97. Oddly enough, his device has a bend sinister, two
dragons, and a bordure. Nary a porker in sight *sigh*" de Lincolia
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