[ANSTHRLD] Eldwin's Submission II Version 2
Ron (Modar) Knight
Rknight at kumc.edu
Wed Jul 28 11:20:57 PDT 2010
Eldwin,
> But to my eye the difference between
> in chief and not in chief simply means
> an object is little higher and smaller,
> whereas by heraldry it can mean the
> difference between something completely
> unacceptable (a shorter purple area
> above a blue area) and perfectly fine
> (a purple area above a blue area of equal height).
.
In the case of the difference between the
two designs that were presented...one was
"per fess" meaning that the field was divided
into two parts. The purple and the blue
sections were laying side by side. But once
you change the design to a chief, you are
putting a purple band on top of an all blue
field.
.
Visually these can seem similar. But it is an
important distinction for the way the SCA
handles heraldic designs and the way that
many period heraldic jurisdictions handled
designs.
--Modar
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