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

[Andrewe Bawldwyn]

Agree on the need for reblazon and will email Wreath. Regarding the lion,
Sable Crane should be able to fix that. I'll see her this weekend so I'll
mention it.

Andrewe
Star
On Apr 27, 2012 12:53 AM, "Diane Rudin" <serena1570 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Alasdair wrote:
>
> "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."
>
> To which Serena responds:
>
> I apologize for being unclear. (I wrote my earlier message while working
> on an appellate brief for a final class project. Bad Idea.)
>
> In fact, I agree that the blazon should be altered, since it is causing
> confusion today.
>
> I wasn't trying to communicate a judgment either way about the present
> situation with the blazon; I was simply attempting to communicate my belief
> as to why it was blazoned that way when it was registered waaaay back
> when.  I would never have drawn it any other way than the way it's
> registered, no matter the blazon, but that's because I know the artwork
> it's taken from, having seen the original submission artwork back when I
> was doing staff work for various SPH's and immediately recognizing its
> source. [BTW, if anyone cares, here's that source citation, since I'm now
> at home with my books: Ludovico degli Arrighi, "La Operina da Imparare di
> scriuere littera Cancellarescha"(published 1522) as reproduced in Three
> Classics of Italian Calligraphy (Dover: New York, (c)1953), p. 39.]
> However, many people (probably most, actually) have never seen that
> artwork, and therefore wouldn't know what it should look like.
>
> So, while its orientation seemed not to need blazoning at the time it was
> registered, obviously nowadays it does.
>
> Speaking of blazon errors that perpetuate erroneous artwork...The blazon
> for Ansteorra's lion supporter in the kingdom achievements database online
> is still incorrect, in that the lion should be a "lion rampant guardant
> argent". To whom should I (re-)report this?
>
> --Serena
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