[tirrigh-heralds] [antir-heralds] Conflict Check - Bear's HeadCabossed

[Michael Chorney]

Looks good to me, and yeah, it would just be a bear's head.

Vladimir Silver Yale


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Morel Carr Zupanic <
bear_necessities at telus.net> wrote:

>    Oddr wrote:
>  Without being zoologists, I think we'd need a cant.  Any structural
> differences are going to vary by artist, anyway, in ways that aren't
> heraldically significant.
>
> If the black bear species is native to Europe, you could make a stronger
> case, but the case would be much better if the head was in fact all black.
>
> Alicia wrote:
> I'm not sure you would specify a 'black bear' - I think it would just be
> a bear's head.
> I didn't find any conflicts.
> *****************************************
>
> Thank you both!  I am thrilled that you found no conflicts, Alicia.  The
> black bear is important to me, but I had assumed it was also found in
> Europe.  Upon reading Oddr's post, however, I checked and was wrong, so
> just bear's head it is.  Totally irrelevant factoid:  Black is actually
> just the name of the species, not the colour, as black bears come in a
> range of colours, including white!  Though the white ones (Kermodes) are
> limited to the coast of British Columbia, so would not be found in Europe,
> even if I had been correct about the black bears.
>
> Doireann Dechti
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