[Sca-cooks] Mairi Ceilidh

[Sue Clemenger]

They're extremely-rare-to-non-existant here in Artemisia.  The only ones 
*I've* ever heard of are the augmentations that Counts/Countesses and 
Dukes/Duchesses will add.  And perhaps one or two of the former-landed 
baronage.
I've never heard of anyone granting *supporters*, though...always 
thought they were an unofficial heraldic thing.
Kiri, you obviously know Things Heraldic....Do you happen to know if 
trees and plants are okay as supporters? I'd really like a birch 
tree....and now that my arms have finally passed (after 4 years!), I can 
actually get something going like commissioning a peerage scroll.....
--maire, who's enough of a bum this morning that she can't even come up 
with OFC.....*sigh*....

Elaine Koogler wrote:

> Yeah, they are pretty rare here...Royalty tends to make gifts of 
> supporters rather than augmentations. They started doing this while I 
> was Principal Herald...it was difficult to tell them that you don't 
> register supporters...they exist outside the actual device. I believe 
> that some of the Crowns, as well as the populace, kind of got the two 
> confused. Phillip and I are in the process of submitting forms to get 
> another augmentation added to our Arms...as we are Barons, we are 
> entitled to an augmentation of a baronial coronet. The big problem is 
> figuring out how to add the augmentation without ruining the design of 
> your device!
> 
> Kiri
> 
> Stefan li Rous wrote:
> 
>> In this kingdom (Ansteorra) at least, this is a rather rare award. 
>> Although perhaps a bit less rare than a Master-of-Arms being awarded 
>> in Meridies. :-)
>>
>> Stefan
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