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• Items of Interest on recent LoARs.
  • Mar 2008 LoAR (SCA site)
    From Wreath: Strawberries Proper
    • We have registered strawberries proper 17 times, the earliest in 1973 and the latest in 2007. Over that period the tinctures of a strawberry proper have never been defined. In examining the emblazons of the registered armory, it is clear that the implicit definition of proper has been gules capped vert. There has not been a clear consensus on the tincture - or even presence/absence - of the seeds. This is true even in the case of multiple pieces of armory registered to the same person. At this time we are making the definition explicit: a strawberry proper is gules capped vert; the seeds, if present, are generally sable or Or but they count for naught. The seeds are an artistic detail; their presence (or absence) need not be blazoned.
    From Wreath: Saltorels
    • The submission from Meridies of Clas Hebenstreit's device raised the question of using the term saltorel in blazons. Batonvert provided a nice summary:

      The term saltorel refers to a "diminutive" of the saltire, in the same way bar refers to a diminutive of the fess. Since we don't consider "skinniness" when judging diminutives, an ordinary's diminutive term is only used when there's more than one of them: a fess but three bars, a saltire but three saltorels. And for the vast majority of period examples [of saltorels], that means couped.
      Now, this was not the case in earlier blazons. In the Bigot Roll, c.1254, the arms of Arguelms d'Olehaun are blazoned l'escu de geules a cinc sautors d'argent (Gules, five saltires argent). It was understood that the saltires were couped, simply by the fact that there were more than one of them. (Brault, Eight Thirteenth-Century Rolls of Arms, p.17) And I believe crosses were treated the same way: three crosses were understood to be three crosses couped.
      But blazonry style changed, and just as six lions on a shield could be blazoned as lionceaus or lioncels, so too did a special term come into use for multiple saltires (couped). Thus in the Randall Holme Roll, c.1460, the arms of Alam are blazoned with iij sawtreys of sabyll engrelyd. The diminutive of the saltire was applied to multiple saltires... which were perforce couped, not throughout.

      An examination of the registered saltorels show that, in most cases, the term is in fact used to mean saltire couped not a skinny saltire. The few cases that did refer to a skinny saltire have been reblazoned as either saltires (when primary charges) or as saltorels throughout (when tertiary charges). As for the saltorels couped, they're on a par with lion rampant: redundant, but harmless.

   

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