[tirrigh-heralds] My Name, Device and Badge: My thoughts and findings so far - PART 3 - BADGE

[Tomas]

I can't seem to be able to visualize what this badge would look like.  What does it mean to have a wolfs head charged with a harp?

-Tomas de Courcy


From: Judy Harcus 
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:18 AM
To: Wulfstan Hrafnsson ; Tir Righ College of Heralds 
Subject: Re: [tirrigh-heralds] My Name, Device and Badge: My thoughts and findings so far - PART 3 - BADGE


My original attempt to post this got bounced by the list as being too big, so I'm reposting it with separate messages for name, device and badge.

PART 3 - Badge

Wulfstan Hrafnsson wrote:
Badge: Fieldless, a wolf's head erased to sinister argent charged with a Celtic harp vert.

Potential conflict:

  a.. Nikolai Domingo de Vallejo 
    a.. The following badge associated with this name was registered in August of 2009 (via Ealdormere):
    (Fieldless) A wolf's head bendwise contourny erased argent. 
I'm not really clear on what the term "contourny" means, so I'm not sure if this would have a conflict with my proposed badge.  I also don't recall if badges need 1 CD or 2.  I know the tertiary charge will help, but I don't know if it will help enough.
Contourny means facing sinister.
Badges need to be cleared the same as devices.  You need two CDs to clear any armory IF it can't be cleared under X.1 or X.2.  However, remember that you often need two 'differences' to count as one CD when looking at tertiary charges (RfS X.4.j).
Back to the RfS.
We're comparing two wolf's heads so we're down to X.4.
X.4.a.iii Fieldless difference is the one that applies here.  "A piece of fieldless armory automatically has one clear difference from any other armory, fielded or fieldless."
So there's the first CD.
Nothing for X.4.b, X.4.c, X.4.d, X.4.e, X.4.f, or X.4.g.
X.4.h Posture changes.  Nothing for 'to sinister' vs 'contourny' as they are the same thing.  However Nikolai's head is "bendwise" so there is a CD for changing it to the default "palewise".  Note: you can only get one CD for the category so if his head was "bendwise (to dexter)", you'd still only get one CD, not one for the change from dexter to sinister plus one for bendwise to palewise.
X.4.j Addition of Charges on Charges gives a third CD for the harp "Adding or removing any group of charges placed entirely on other charges in one clear difference".
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