[ANSTHRLD] (Fieldless) Half Moon Knife Or, conflict checking of

[Crandall]

The Mezzaluna, a leatherworker's head knife, and the Inuit Ulu are all half moon shapes. 

Crandall 

"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong." -John Kenneth Galbraith


--- On Sat, 2/19/11, John Atkinson <johnmatkinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ANSTHRLD] (Fieldless) Half Moon Knife Or, conflict checking of
> To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Date: Saturday, February 19, 2011, 10:33 AM
> OK. . .
> 
> I'm not even sure where to begin with this one. 
> Client wants to
> register (fieldless) On a half-moon knife Or, a mullet of
> five greater
> and five lesser points sable.
> 
> Normally a knife is a knife is a sword is a scimitar is a
> falchion is
> a claymore. . . But this isn't even remotely similar in
> outline.
> There are no helpful precedents that I can find so far, all
> the half
> moon knives submitted have been registered more or less
> without
> comment since the defining instance where the extent of the
> comment
> was to note that a knife or ax of this shape was found in
> German
> heraldry in period.
> 
> If this is it's 'own thing' then the badge is clear by a
> long shot,
> nothing similar is registered.
> 
> Ioannes
> who notes that the reward for good heraldry is more
> heraldry
> -- 
> "Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain
> them again
> and again.  We're looking for thousands of Persians."
> --Vita Aureliani
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