SC - pilgrim badges

[Mark Schuldenfrei]

  Now we're getting somewhere. On a field argent (or is there a better
  term to describe iron heraldically?) a heraldic salamander (which by
  definition, I believe, IS flaming anyway) displayed. Would an orange
  salamander constitute Or on Argent, and therefore a Crime Against
  Heraldry?

For a badge, especially a soapstone badge, the item has no field, and is
without tincture.

A salamander is flaming, without question.  There is no crime against
heraldry here.  Heraldic colors during most of the period heraldry was
actually practiced didn't include orange.  Fire was about equal parts red
and yellow, and was basically ignored for tincture violation purposes.

I wonder, though (said the authenticist type) if we would rather use the
cooking salamander, which is like a fireplace poker along the handle, and a
shovel at the base.  Except the shovel is a flat, rectangular spatula like
item, which would be heated in the coals till hot, and then used to brown
the tops of foods.

The nef, BTW, would be any ship, sailing from viewers right to left, with
wagon wheels attached.  I think that would be much neater.  (And, dare I
say, much cooler than a white hot spatula..... :-)

	Tibor
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