[Sca-cooks] Authenticity Police: since we're castigatingextremists anyway.. .

[Elaine Koogler]

I believe that these are restrictions that emanate from the College of Arms.  And I meant
to make sure that it was clear that I'm not really certain about the number of pearls on a
viscounty coronet.  So I believe that they are actually SCA-wide, but not part of Corpora
or the By-Laws.

Kiri

Ted Eisenstein wrote:

> >I do know that plain gold chains (not gold chains holding up some sort of pendant or
> >medallion), gold spurs and white belts (all white, not white and a bunch of other
> >colors as you described) are reserved on a corporate level to the Chivalry, just as
> >the Pelican in her piety is reserved to the Order of the Pelican and the green laurel
> >wreath on a gold field is reserved to the Order of the Laurel.  The only other
> >society-wide sumptuary restrictions are for hats...6 pearls for barons, 15 (I think)
> >for viscounts, crenelated for counts and strawberry leaves for dukes.  Also, I believe
> >that livery collars are reserved to those holding a Grant of Arms or better.
>
> Kiri, are you sure about all that? The sumptuary restrictions, I believe, are
> _customs_, not Corpora, and vary from kingdom to kingdom. I've never seen
> a 15-pearled coronet in Calontir, either our native viscounts or any of the
> number of visiting ones.
> And livery collars are most assuredly custom, not Corpora; we don't have them
> in Calontir (save for maybe one or two, who wear them for High Persona
> Official High-Falutin' Events), and I doubt most people here even know
> what one would be.
>
> Alban
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