[ANSTHRLD] Conflict check, please

Tim McDaniel tmcd at panix.com
Tue Oct 21 08:45:48 PDT 2008


On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Cisco Cividanes <engtrktwo at gmail.com> wrote:
> From the sound of it, I need to learn how to use some of the
> computer resources for conflict checking.

Do you want to be a conflict-checker, and do conflict checks on
various submitters' armory?  If not, I don't see any particular need
to go into it for just a few items of your own: it's a lot of effort
and counter-intuitive learning.

> "Vert, a cross throughout between four dogwood flowers argent and a
> bordur argent"
>
> or...
>
> "Vert, a cross throughout between four dogwood flowers argent and a
> chief argent."

Crosses are throughout by default.  If two or more charges in sequence
have the same tincture, you just specify the tincture after the last
one -- that is, you can drop the first "argent".

     Vert, a cross between four dogwood flowers and a [whatever] argent.

I don't know if you care about this issue.  Albeit without doing
research, I doubt that dogwood blossoms were used in period armory.
However,
- Europeans likely saw dogwood flowers in period
- Certainly they *could* have seen them
- At least one American charge made it into European armory (a turkey
   made it into a ... crest or arms, I forget which)
- On those bases, New World flora and fauna that explorers or
   colonists could have seen in period are registerable

Danet de Lyncoln
-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com



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