[Sca-cooks] Arms, was Mairi Ceilidh

[Olwen the Odd]

I am not a herald, nor do I play one in the SCA, but I have investigated 
some aspects of heraldry (plus I worked in one of those tourist Heraldry 
Shoppes for a few years and had to be versed).  Anyway, I was glad to see 
that Selene jumped in with the correct uses of COA and Badge.  The deal with 
the badge is that it can be something completely different than any item in 
your COA.  If you have a rabbit in your Arms, you could conceivably have and 
ax on your badge.  If you look at a picture of a hemeted and mantled COA you 
can see a device sitting atop the helm, that is usually the registered 
badge, in this case referred to as the Crest.  At least that is what I was 
taught.

In my case, I have a very simple COA and I did choose to use the same comet 
on the same background for my badge as well.  I was totally in agreement 
with you, AEllin, for the longest time.  Now I have a Heraldic surcoate, a 
banner cut out of leather and glued together, a tablecloth with my badge in 
the making and soon after a couple of folding chair covers to match.  Then 
onto cooler covers.  You know, the coolers where I keep my FOOD (OFC)
Olwen

>So, if after all this, I ever did actually want to use the silly thing, I 
>need to get something different anyway? I know I've had badges explained to 
>me, but I'm Not Quite Getting it...   how exactly are they different?
>
>AEllin
>who is unlikely to ever have minions, but could conceivably have a chair 
>she wanted to mark...   seems a complex way to do it, but that was about 
>the only use I could actually see... for me.
>
>Susan Fox-Davis wrote:
>
>>So far, so good.
>>
>>>If you ever get minions,
>>>they will get tabards with your arms on them, so
>>>people will know to whom they belong.  You can
>>>paint your arms on various objects, like your
>>>tourney chair or your ice chest, as a period way
>>>to identify your possessions rather that use the
>>>very unperiod "property of ..."
>>>
>>Not quite right here.  These are the places to use your BADGE, not your 
>>device.
>>
>>A Device says This Is Me.  A banner that proclaims that I am in residence, 
>>or garments that only I wear like a fighting tabard or heraldic surcoat.  
>>Only the current ruling landed noble of a Kingdom or Barony, or the herald 
>>who speaks for him, gets to wear the full arms of that region.  [There was 
>>heraldry test question once:  You see two men wearing tabards of the Arms 
>>of the East Kingdom.  One of them is wearing a Crown.  How do you address 
>>the other one? The technically correct answer is "My Lord Herald", however 
>>  Zenobia's answer was "Hi Arval!" Not inappropriate at the time.]
>>
>>A Badge says This Is Mine.  My stuff, my householders.  Aeduin has a small 
>>emblazon of my arms on his associates' belt, but this is local tradition 
>>rather than technically correct usage.  His back-support belt for carrying 
>>heavy objects DOES have my badge carved on it, the one with the celery 
>>stalk between fox' tails.  Also the caption:  "HOW AM I SERVING?  CALL 
>>1-800-S E L E N E"  mainly because nobody believed I would really do that. 
>><bwahaha>
>>
>>>There are tons of imaginative ways of using your
>>>arms.
>>>
>>This is undoubtedly true, but only I get to use them.
>>
>>Selene
>>
>>
>>
>
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