[ANSTHRLD] Question regarding Guild Devices

Faelan Caimbeul faelancaimbeul at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 12:45:41 PDT 2007


That sounds like what the blazon says to me.

Faelan

On 4/23/07, Alasdair MacEogan <alasdair at bmhanson.net> wrote:
>
> Alasdair MacEogan <alasdair at bmhanson.net> wrote:
> >  Sable, a needle, point in base, Or threaded argent, between in pale two
> pairs of open scissors, the upper inverted, conjoined at the points argent.
>
> Alright.  I am purty rusty on translating the blazon to emblazon so lets
> see if I have this one right.
>
> Lets break this down.
>
> - Sable,
> A black field
>
> - a needle, point in base, Or threaded argent
> gold needle with its point facing down with a silver thread
> This is what is throwing me a little.  If it is how i am picturing then I
> would have said point to base.  That or nowadays just leave it off as that
> is the default posture.  It was registered in 1984 though so i do not know
> if they were using "default" postures back then for needles.
>
> - between in pale two pars of open scissors, the upper inverted, conjoined
> at the points argent
> 2 silver scissors with the points touching and th top with the handle
> towards the top, bottom with the handle towards the bottom.  Think 2 Xs
> (sorta) sitting on top of each other.
> The needle would be in the diamond shape created by the scissors.
>
> Alright, how off base am I?
>
> Alasdair
>
> PS.  Viviana, i did find this.
> http://www.goldenstag.net/MiscSCA/OfficerBadges.htm  is that what you were
> remembering?  If so then they do not have an image for this badge.
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