[Steppes] Insignia

[Sir Morgan Buchanan]

The Grice's Track is a non-armigerous "thank you" for service to the marshal 
community of the Steppes.  Examples are some past local marshals (KM, 
rapier, archery) have been given the Grice's Track, the list babes for their 
services, and our current Knight Marshal received it long before he was a 
baronial officer for bringing water for everyone to fighter practice week 
after week on his own.

The Acorn is a non-armigerous "thank you" for pretty much anything and 
everything else, but in general for service to the barony on a level that 
doesn't approach yet what an becoming a companion to the Order of the Oak of 
the Steppes represents.  They can represent a lot more than this, but in my 
experience, this is a fair generalization of how they've been given in my 
time here.

Morgan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Esther" <reese_esther at yahoo.com>
To: <alkudsi at aol.com>; <steppes at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Steppes] Insignia


> Okay, um, I will admit to being an ignorant twinkie....
>
>  What IS a Grice?
>
>  What ARE the Steppes Awards?
>
>  Hey, what a GOOD topic for a Steppes Letter article, and maybe something 
> for our website?
>
>  Esther the Twinkie
>
>
> alkudsi at aol.com wrote:
>  When I went to this site, the only insignia for Steppes shown was the 
> Oak.? While we probably do need more of the Oak insignia, from what the 
> Baroness has said, we need the insignia for the other, non-armigenous 
> awards such as Grice and Acorn, as well.? I also checked the Steppes 
> website, and could not find "official" descriptions of the insignia.? This 
> is a herald question, I believe, and I would think that this points out a 
> deficency on the website, as well.? We do not list the other awards, only 
> the Oaks, the Artisans, Champions, Bards, and Warlords (and maybe a couple 
> of others).
>
> HL Saqra
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Loni Orbison
> To: steppes at ansteorra.org
> Sent: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 4:35 pm
> Subject: [Steppes] Insignia
>
>
>
> http://heraldry.ansteorra.org/docs/AwardTexts2005.pdf
>
> This link should be helpful for people interested in making insignia. It
> contains the text for the scrolls for most kingdom and many baronial 
> awards.
> Above the text of each award you will find a description of the badge and 
> the
> insignia for the award along with a graphic.
>
> Please note that the badge and insignia are two different things: the 
> badge
> is what is drawn on the award scroll and the insignia is what a person 
> wears.
> They are not always the same, so check that out before you put in hours of 
> hard
> work. At a recent class I attended on making insignia, we were shown many
> pieces of beautiful work--creatively done, but unusable due to 
> inaccuracies. It
> was quite heartbreaking.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Osanna
>
>
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