Re: FW: May Laurel Acceptances and Returns

[Me <dungeon@norfolk.infi.net>]

Poster: Me <dungeon@norfolk.infi.net>

At 10:09 AM 6/3/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Poster: Corun MacAnndra <corun@access.digex.net>
>
>Herveus wrote;
>> 
>> There is no heraldic difference counted between types of ship (drakkar/galley
>> /lymphad), so there is nothing gained by insisting on specificity. However,
>> we count cows and goats to be completely different charges. Therefore, the
>> drawings need to clearly be one or the other. Sometimes it makes a difference
>> (heraldicly speaking) and sometimes it doesn't.
>
>Agreed and understood, however I may not have phrased my comment clearly, so
>let me do so again. If someone draws up their device on a submission forrm
>and writes somewhere on it (either in the notes field or elsewhere) that it
>is "Or a cow salient sable" and then draws the device on the shield but it
>looks instead like a goat, then shouldn't the Herald know from the description
>that it is indeed a goat rather than a cow? And since these submissions are
>supposed to be (and that may be a key point here) done with the help of a
>Herald, shouldn't that Herald make some notations as well so as to avoid
>confusion?
>
>To anyone who thinks I'm ragging on the Herlads, I'm not. I think this is
>an important point for those who are doing their devices for the first time.
>I'd hate to have my device come back as a goat crossing sign rather than the
>cow crossing sign I originally wanted simply because I can't draw.
>
>In service,
>Corun (not Cowan and definitely not Mooan)
>
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Vi vat (sp?) on  that note:)
myrddin of marinus

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