SC - Salamanders and badges
Stephanie Rudin
rudin at okway.okstate.edu
Wed Sep 17 13:29:34 PDT 1997
I like the idea of a golden nef. It even sounds interesting without knowing
what it is. "What is that on your badge there? Why, that's a golden nef!"
Mercedes
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I've been thinking about this, for a little while, and I have a serious
suggestion.
At some times and places in period, salt cellars became wild and elaborate
items, fancy and decorated statues. These were called nefs. They
frequently had wheels on them so they could be rolled from one end of a
table to another, and they were richly decorated.
I'd suggest, for our use "(fieldless) a nef in the shape of a wheeled ship,
or". This would match a surviving period nef, isn't "obvious", but is
absolutely period and cookery related. And it avoids all the cliched
symbolism of cookpots, spoons, forks, plates, and so forth.
Last bit of personal opinion: don't do the "salamander fondue", at least not
seriously. Silly jokes (Saponacious notwithstanding) rarely have staying
power. By the time the College of Arms renders a decision sometime next
year, that joke will be too stale to tell.
Oh, and last administrivia. Gunthar is our Patron, I'd encourage him to
register it. If not he, I could do it in the East, or any one of us would
volunteer. I'll let him steer.
Tibor
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