[ANSTHRLD] Blazon and conflict help (Wolf head and mitre)

[Donnchadh Beag mac Griogair]

What is the visual difference between a mitre and a cardinal's hat?  I 
don't have a pic dic to look at.

Thanks,
Donnchadh

On 6/1/2011 1:22 PM, Lisa Theriot wrote:
> [I didn't think about that being an issue because it is not in the list
> of Restricted or Reserved charges.]
>
> It IS on the list of prohibited charges.  The reserved charge list is
> only for charges reserved due to their significance in the SCA;
> restricted charges due to mundane meaning are in the prohibited list.
>
> The "cardinal's hat" is found in non-religious armory and is therefore
> not restricted.  I disagree, though, that as drawn the hat is of equal
> weight; it's just a big hat.  If the wolf appears to be wearing it, I
> think it plummets below the CD level and you run afoul of:
>
> Stefan von Bernhardt
> The following badge associated with this name was registered in April of
> 1981 (via Atlantia):
> Per bend sinister azure and vert, a wolf's head caboshed argent.
>
> I think it's possible to draw, for example, "Gules, in pale a cardinal's
> hat and a wolf's head cabossed argent" such that they are coequal
> primaries, but the hat would need to be visibly separated from the
> wolf's head (though with the strings and tassels that go with the
> cardinal's hat, you could still involve them in an artistic way which
> would not change the heraldic weight).
>
>
> Adelaide
>
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