[ANSTHRLD] CoS Badge - knife orientation (was ISO Badge Graphic - Scribes Badge)

Jennifer Smith jds at randomgang.com
Thu Apr 26 16:35:51 PDT 2012


If you all decide it needs to be reblazoned, someone email
wreath at heraldry.ansteorra.org and remind me to put it in my list of
"reblazons to do". Otherwise I'm very very likely to completely
forget!

-Emma

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Kathleen O'Brien <mari_1184 at att.net> wrote:
> Well, my thought is that if the image that ended up on the kingdom website
> is wrong, then the blazon is probably unclear enough to warrant a blazon
> change.  Even if the current blazon is correct in technical format, it seems
> that it can create confusion given the badge on the website ended up being
> wrong.  So, requesting a reblazon may not be a necessary thing, but
> explicitly blazoning the position of the knife could may help prevent
> confusion in the future.
>
> (And, yeah, I just visually checked and Alasdair is correct - the blazon on
> the website does not match the one in the emblazon Emma sent out.)
>
> I have a vague memory of something similar happening with the "Ansteorran
> Rose" in one submission at some point.  I remember having to dig through
> stacks of paperwork to figure out the position of the rose on the originally
> submitted paperwork because it ended up being wrong on a number of images
> that got drawn later.
>
> Mari
>
>
>
> On 4/26/2012 4:34 PM, Alasdair MacEogan wrote:
>>
>> I say probably.  At least that was what I was wondering when I pointed
>> out the possible discrepancy. I was just trying to see if I was the only
>> one that felt that way or if I was completely off base.
>>
>> So far we have me saying it is either wrong or seems to be at leaset
>> unclear in what the default should be and Mistress Serena saying the
>> default of the calligrapher's knife should be point down and thus the
>> blazon is fine.
>>
>> That is hardly enough of a sampling to make a determination as to
>> whether we should request a blazon correction or not.
>>
>> Alasdair
>>
>> On 4/26/2012 4:27 PM, Kathleen O'Brien wrote:
>>>
>>> So, given this discussion thread, is this something we need to request
>>> a blazon change for so that the direction of the knife is accurately
>>> reproduced each time?
>>>
>>> Mari
>>>
>>
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