[ANSTHRLD] Conflict check, please

[tmcd at panix.com]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, kevinkeary at aol.com wrote:
> So, current precedent is that 'dogwood blossom' is in and of itself
> a registerable charge

As I mentioned: if nothing else, it's New World flora that could have
been seen by Europeans in period, which is expressly allowed by the
Rules for Submission.  I've realized, after some initial fluttering,
that it should not be a concern for the submitter, unless another Step
>From Period Practice rears its ugly head, and I didn't notice any in
the original proposal.


Things occasionally get mass reblazonings, when we realize we've been
inconsistent or stupid in the past.  The ones that come to mind first:

- heraldic seahorse (upper half of a horse, lower half of a fish)
  versus natural seahorse (the real fish that you can see in a
  salt-water aquarium) versus hippocampus (was either).  3/97 LoAR
  Cover Letter.  The problem is that heraldic seahorses get a CD from
  natural seahorses, so they have to be distinguished in blazons.

      Therefore, we have reblazoned all the misblazons, and have
      substituted the term natural seahorse for hippocampus. As with
      all heraldic versus natural charges, the default is the heraldic
      item, so a seahorse is the monster, and the natural seahorse the
      fish.

- trillium (a three-petalled flower).  1/03 LoAR Cover Letter.  Laurel
  had been inconsistent about blazoning orientation, and orientation
  of a three-lobed object is a CD.  Wreath defined a trillium as
  having its petals in pall, due to the earliest registration.
  Wreath's staff went thru and checked every registered trillium, and
  errata-reblazoned as necessary.

- crud.  I forgot the third.

Anyway, I searched for "reblazon" in LoAR Cover Letters.  For example,
in 10/07, Wreath took on a lot of them, setting defaults and
reblazoning bobbins, brushes, human figures, lizards, pipes,
pomegranates.  Linden leaves in 9/07.  Peacocks in 4/07.  Et cetera.

So I merely have a rainy-day project to suggest to Wreath.

Danihel de Lindo
-- 
Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com