[ANSTHRLD] Society heraldic displays

[Salvador Ordoñez]

Thanks. We are wanting to fly banners at practices and demos and thought an SCA banner might help with public recognition...

Derek Harris (via iPhone)



On Jul 22, 2012, at 3:22 PM, HerrDetlef <herrdetlef at gmail.com> wrote:

> The arms of the kingdom are reserved for the King and can only be displayed
> in his presence. There is a registered badge for a civil ensign that local
> groups can fly in the King's absence. That badge is *Or, a mullet of five
> greater and five lesser points within a bordure sable*, and it is typically
> executed on a swallowtail banner.
> 
> The arms of the Society (Or, a laurel wreath vert) are closely associated
> with the Order of the Laurel (in fact, if I'm not mistaken, the Order of
> the Laurel HAS no badge because that order's "badge" is already registered
> as the arms of the Society). I've seen stickers with the Society's arms and
> the letters "SCA" written in versals inside the laurel wreath. But I've
> never seen that executed in flag format. I don't know if a local group can
> appropriately fly a banner depicting the Society's arms, and I would guess
> (perhaps wrongly--who would know definitively?) that local groups may not.
> 
> I'm not the authority on these matters by any means, but I would
> suggest--until a more trustworthy response appears on this thread--that
> your best bet is banners of the shire's arms and the Ansteorran civil
> ensign.
> 
> Yours in these Current Middle Ages,
> Detlef von Marburg
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Salvador Ordoñez <
> salvadorthespaniard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Can a shire fly the society arms? What about kingdom arms?
>> 
>> Derek Harris (via iPhone)
>> 
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