SC - Salamanders and badges

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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