[ANSTHRLD] Questions

[Jennifer Smith]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Herald of Hellsgate <
herald at hellsgate.ansteorra.org> wrote:
>
> 1.  What is the procedure for releasing a registered badge?  This person
is
> not registering a new one but no longer desire the badge he has
registered.

Simply send in a release request. It should contain the registered name of
the person, and the registered blazon of the badge they are wanting to
release. Theoretically an email to the submissions herald would be
sufficient, but it's probably a good idea to send Actual Paper just to be
on the safe side of things. Or, y'know, ask. :)  There is no fee for a
release. (And in my opinion, I wouldn't bother putting it through internal
commentary either, but there's no harm if it is.)


> 2. What is the procedure to get a device re-blazoned?  At the time it was
> blazoned as a "wolf's head erased" and it was intended to be a
"wolfhound's
> head erased".  It was registered a long time ago and the heralds at that
> time felt a wolf's head was more registerable.

Trickier. If this is an actual reblazon -- ie, the original artwork is not
changing, just in someone's opinion it's not sufficiently wolfy to warrant
that blazon and should be reblazoned, this is most quickly handled by just
an email to Wreath with the relevant information. On the other hand, if the
owner wants to redo the artwork to be more distinctly a wolfhound's head
and not a wolf's head, that's a change of emblazon (picture) and will be
handled as a Device Change (with fee).


> 3.  Can a badge include a 3-strand braid (like braiding hair) or does this
>
> fall afoul of the knotwork rules?  I know rope can be registered but I am
> not sure about a simple braid.

There is a period armorial charge, the tress of hair.  It can be seen as a
badge on a standard for John Zouche de Codnore, on p. 163 of Banners,
Standards and Badges from a Tudor Manuscript in the College of Arms, found
at http://archive.org/details/bannersstandards00howauoft. It's definitely a
braid. I would *not* do "a braid of three colors" or even two colors, just
a solid color braid, personally.


> 4. Will the addition of a bordure clear the appearance of marshalled arms?

The addition of a bordure does not clear the appearance of marshalling for
quarterly arms (SENA A6F3b). The addition of a bordure may (or may not)
clear the appearance of marshalling for per pale arms. SENA A6F3c says "The
addition of a bordure or chief that does not itself appear to be part of
two distinct original arms also removes that appearance. In general, a
chief or bordure which has poor contrast with one side of the field or one
that is charged so that identical charges or parts of charges appear on
both sides of the line of division or bordure meets this standard."


> 5. I have a client who wants "Sable, a fess vert fimbriated argent, in
> chief a Thor's hammer and in base three oars palewise argent" but I am not
> sure of that can be registered that way.

It's not terribly period style, but I don't immediately see any obvious
style problems that would prevent registration.

-Emma