Re: MR: Disc: Arms

[James Morrow <achbar@vnet.net>]

Poster: James Morrow <achbar@vnet.net>

At 05:16 PM 7/10/96 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Poster: edh@ascc01.ascc.lucent.com
>
>> or his arms blazon "Gules, a saltire cross azure, bordured argent, 12
>> stars argent" (Say, my arms haven't passed yet... Hey Rhiannon, is
>> this taken?)
>
>I checked the on-line armorial, and found that your propsed arms
>are very close a badge already registered:
>
>   America, Confederate States of
>     The following badge associated with this name was registered
>     in December of 1994 (via Laurel):
>          Gules, a saltire azure fimbriated and mullety argent.
>          Important non-SCA battle flag
>
>I suggest you try instead
>
>   Gules, a fess argent and a canton azure mullety argent.
>
>I didn't see anything that conflicted with this, although, strangely,
>a plain "Gules, a fess argent" (without the canton) was registered
>as the flag of Austria AND the flag of Latvia.
>
>Come to think of it Austria has a name conflict problem, too
>
>-- Alfredo
> 
> I was wondering How long it was going to take a herald to figure that one
out.  I decided to stay out of it  :)


Achbar
Retired Canton Herald

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