[Scriptoris] seeking painted charters for a library...

[Kimberly Koch]

Unless there's been a change of which I am unaware,
you don't need to destroy painted scrolls that have
been retired, although I've run into a number of
people who have that impression. 

Retiring a charter usually means that it is pulled
from the set of masters and is no longer reproduced
and distributed. It does *not* mean that you can't use
the ones you already have in your possession. 

Charters are retired for a number of reasons - most
often, it's just to get new charters into circulation.
Occasionally, they're retired for spelling, text, or
spacing issues, but even those are usually *very*
minor. When I was Signet, I happily accepted any
painted charter - retired or not - because any minor
flaws in the text were never reason enough to discard
a well-painted scroll.

I'm sure Darius can tell us if that policy has
changed.

Sara

--- Chiara Francesca Arianna d'Onofrio <chiara at io.com>
wrote:

> Many charters have been retired. Every year we
> retire more. That may
> be what you are running into when you cannot find
> one online. If it
> is not online the chances are that it is retired. We
> did not want
> anything retired put up there for exactly that
> reason. We did not
> want anyone finding it and thinking that it was ok
> to labor over
> their scroll for hours on end just to find out that
> we are no longer
> using it. It happens to all of us, I know that at
> least 10 of mine
> were destroyed because they were retired. Kind sad
> and heart
> breaking but that was many years ago before the web
> was even in use.



	
		
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