Editing Proper Tincture

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===Definition:=== 
===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Glossary of Terms:</span>=== 

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(1) Specifying that a charge appears in its natural hues. A zebra proper has the zebra's characteristic pattern of black and white stripes; a tree proper has a brown trunk and green leaves. Proper should not be used to indicate colorings that can be easily described in terms of the usual heraldic tinctures: a raven proper is better blazoned as a raven sable. It should also be used only if a competent artist will be able to draw the animal correctly without extensive research.</span>

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(2) Indicates a standard set of tinctures for a standard heraldic charge, such as a sword proper, which has an argent blade and Or hilt and quillons, or a rose proper, which is a rose gules, barbed vert and seeded Or. See Table 3, Conventional Proper Colorings for a listing of proper tinctures defined in precedent.</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">[[http://heraldry.sca.org/coagloss.html]]</span>
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===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A Heraldic Primer (old version): </span>=== 
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Proper Tinctures - [[http://heraldry.sca.org/primer/proper.html]]</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">In addition to the aforementioned tinctures, there is a special consideration termed 'proper'. The term is used when a charge is emblazoned in a manner as it appears in nature and is considered heraldic shorthand. Thus, instead of saying A pine tree vert, trunked brun, one blazons it A pine tree proper</span>
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A pomegranate proper</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A fox proper</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A pine tree proper</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">[[File:http:''heraldry.sca.org/primer/pomegranateproper.gif]]</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">[[File:http://heraldry.sca.org/primer/fproper.gif]]</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">[[File:http:''heraldry.sca.org/primer/PTreeproper.gif]]</span> 
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|===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Glossary of Terms:</span>=== 
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|====<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Table of Proper Colorings</span>==== 
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Conventional "Proper" Colorings - </span>http://heraldry.sca.org/coagloss.html#proper
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Most monsters, e.g., griffins, unicorns, sea-lions, etc., being mythical creatures, have no "proper" coloration. Natural animals which are frequently found as brown but also commonly appear in other tinctures in the natural world may be registered as a brown [animal name] proper (e. g., brown hound proper, brown horse proper).</span>
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| '''Charge</span> || '''Tincture or Blazon</span> || '''Tincture Class</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Acorn</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Animals</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Varies by specific animal</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">n/a</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Antler/Ivory</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">White or light yellow brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Metal</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Arrow</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown shaft, black head, tincture of fletching specified</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Axe</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">No defined proper tincture</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">n/a</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Barbed and seeded</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Green sepals, yellow seeds</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Ignored</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Bear</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">No default; must be specified</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">n/a</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Boar</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Bread</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Bull/Cow</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">No default; must be specified</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">n/a</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Camel</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">No default; must be specified</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">n/a</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Carrot</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">No defined proper tincture</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">n/a</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Cherub</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">No defined proper tincture</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">n/a</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Chough</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Black with red beak and legs</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Cloves</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Dark brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Daisy</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Argent seeded Or</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Metal</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Deer/Stag</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Dog/Wolf</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">No default; must be specified</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">n/a</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Dolphin</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Green with red fins</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Dolphin, natural</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Gray</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Metal</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Dove</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">White with pink or red beak and legs</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Metal</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Elephant</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Gray with white tusks</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Metal</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Falcon</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Fire/flame</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Alternately red and yellow or yellow and red</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Neutral</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Ford</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A base wavy barry wavy blue and white</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Neutral</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Fountain</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A roundel barry wavy blue and white</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Neutral</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Fox</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Red with black "socks" and white at tip of tail</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Hammer</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Sable shafted of brown wood</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Hare</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Harp</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Horse</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">No default; must be specified</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">n/a</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Humans/human parts</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Caucasian by default, i.e., pink or white (See also Moor)</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Metal</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Ibex</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Ladybug</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">No defined proper tincture</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">n/a</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Lavender</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Purple flowers, green leaves and stem</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Leaf</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Green (sometimes with a brown stem)</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Leather/leather items</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Mermaid</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Caucasian human with green tail and yellow hair</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Neutral</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Monster</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Most have no proper tincture</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">n/a</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Moor</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown with black hair</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Moose</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Mouse</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">No default; must be specified</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">n/a</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Owl</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">No default; must be specified</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">n/a</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Parchment</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Tan or yellow</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Metal</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Peacock</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Mostly blue and green with "eyes" in the tail</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Pickaxe</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Black, shafted brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Plants</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Green, sometimes with brown stems</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Pomegranate</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Green, seeded red</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Popinjay</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Green with red details</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Pretzel</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Rabbit</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Rainbow</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(on color field: from top to bottom)</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Yellow, red, green, white; white clouds</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Metal</span> 
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|^   || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(on metal field from top to bottom)</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Blue, green, gold, red; cloud color must be specified</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Rainbow, natural</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">(from top to bottom)</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, white clouds</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Neutral</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Raven</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Sable</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Sable</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Rose</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Red, barbed green and seeded yellow</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Saracen</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">As a default Human</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Metal</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Seraph</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Caucasian skin, red hair, multicolored wings</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">n/a</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Ship</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown, sails must be specified</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Slipped and leaved</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown or green stem and green leaves</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Stone/stone items</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Gray</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Metal</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Sword</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">White with yellow hilt and quillons</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Metal</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Tai-chi</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Per fess embowed counter-embowed argent and sable</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Neutral</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Thistle</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Green sepals, stem, leaves; purple or red flower</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Tiger</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">No default; must be specified</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">n/a</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Tree</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown trunk, green leaves</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Urchin</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown with white face and belly</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Weaver's slea</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Wood/wooden items</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Brown</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Color</span> 
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| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Zebra</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">White striped black</span> || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Metal</span> 
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| ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Article "On Proper... "</span>=== 
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">[[http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/lessons/lesson06.html]]</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">We will begin with the definition given in the glossary to the [[scaheraldry/Rules for Submissions|rules for submission]]:</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Proper – Used in blazon to specify that a charge appears in its natural colors. "A zebra proper" has the zebra’s characteristic pattern of black and white stripes. "A tree proper" has a brown trunk and green leaves. Sometimes "proper" is used to indicate a standard set of tinctures for a standard heraldic charge, like "a sword proper", which has an argent blade and Or hilt and quillons, or "a rose proper", which is "a rose gules, barbed vert and seeded Or". The term "proper" should only be used to indicate colorings that cannot be described in the usual heraldic language. "A raven proper" is just "a raven sable". "Proper" should also only be used if a competent artist will be able to draw the animal correctly without extensive research.</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">The definition gives two types of proper:The natural colors of the object, and a heraldic shorthand.</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Proper as the natural colors of a charge must be unambiguous. For example, a robin proper, or a brown bear proper, or a tree proper. If the charge comes in different colors, do not call it proper. Consider a horse. How many different colors and color patterns do horses come in? The words must describe the picture so that a competent artist can recreate the picture without having to do extensive research.</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">If it is necessary to name the species to define what is proper, then you cannot use proper. If described as "an American Kestrel proper", most people would have to go scrambling for a bird book to check the colors, even if they recognized that the Kestrel is a falcon. Being more precise and including the species (Falco sparverius) doesn’t help.</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">One of the examples was "a brown bear proper". Anyone can visualize that. However, consider "a snowshoe hare in summer phase". "A brown rabbit proper" says the same thing in words that anyone can visualize. The fine distinction between a generic "rabbit" and a "snowshoe hare" is insignificant in the heraldic sense.</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">As heraldic shorthand, proper has limited application. There are only a few objects, which have a "proper" coloration. They include:</span>
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|* <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A sword (argent, hilted and pommelled Or)</span>
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|* <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A rose (gules, barbed vert, seeded Or)</span>
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|* <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A thistle (purpure, slipped and leaved vert in the SCA; gules, slipped and leaved vertin mundane)</span>
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|* <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A mount (vert in mundane, no default in SCA)</span>
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|* <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A popinjay (vert, beaked gules)</span>
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|* <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A rainbow (heraldic) (four bands, either Or, gules, vert, argent, clouds argent when on a dark field; or azure, vert, Or, and gules, clouds to be specified when on a light field)</span>
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|* <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A ford (a base barry wavy azure and argent or argent and azure)</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Note that each can be blazoned without resorting to proper. If you have any doubts whether "proper" is applicable, don’t use it.</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Rules for Submission VIII.4.c – Natural Depiction says "Excessively naturalistic use of otherwise acceptable charges may not be registered." It further notes: "Excessively natural designs include those that overuse proper, depict animate objects in unheraldic postures, or use several charges in their natural forms, especially when heraldic equivalents exist." You cannot have a rabbit proper between three robins proper and on a chief azure two rattlesnakes proper. That is excessive use of proper. Armory should contain no more than one charge blazoned as proper, in the natural sense. Heraldic flora and fauna are normally stylized to some degree.</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Perhaps the commonest reason to use proper is to get a brown something. For example, a tree proper has a brown trunk. Since we do not recognize brown as a heraldic tincture by name, the only way to get a brown object is to blazon it proper, if brown is the proper color.</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">We are heralds, not botanists!</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">You cannot use proper to cheat on the rule of tincture. Charges blazoned as proper are still either light or dark, and must be placed on an appropriate tincture. A tree blasted proper is still a dark color (brown) and cannot be placed on a color.</span>
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|---- || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A sword proper... (argent, hilted and pommelled Or)[[File:http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/lessons/images/proper-1.jpg]]</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A rose proper... (gules, barbed vert, seeded Or)[[File:http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/lessons/images/proper-2.jpg]]</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A thistle proper (purpure, slipped and leaved vert)[[File:http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/lessons/images/proper-3.jpg]]</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">A popinjay proper (vert, beaked gules)[[File:http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/lessons/images/proper-4.jpg]]</span>
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|<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Argent, a ford proper (a base barry wavy azure and argent)[[File:http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/lessons/images/proper-5.jpg]]</span> 
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|===Precedents:=== 
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|<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - [[http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html]]</span>
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|<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Morsulus Heralds Website - [[http://www.morsulus.org/]] (to search the LoARs and Precedents)</span>
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|<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Restatement Wiki - [[http://yehudaheraldry.com/restatement/index.php?title=Main_Page]] (restatements of Precedents)</span>
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|''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">'''Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.'''</span>''
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====<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">[[#x--Precedents:-Definition:]]<u>'''Definition:'''</u></span>==== 

'''From the February 2006 LoAR:'''
"Proper for a turnip is the top half of the turnip purpure and the bottom half argent (with a somewhat wavy line of division) with vert leaves; neither the purpure nor the argent should predominate. The argent tip on a purpure turnip need not be blazoned, nor does a purpure cap on an argent turnip as both are considered artistic details." and "The turnip leaves should be about a quarter to a half of the total charge. Due to the variability in size of the leaves, the tincture of the leaves does not contribute to tincture difference. This is similar to our treatment of a rose's slip and leaves." Note: therefore a turnip "proper" is a neutral charge as neither the purpure nor the argent predominates.
[[http://www.sca.org/heraldry/loar/2006/02/06-02lar.html|February 2006 LoAR]]

'''From the March 2005 LoAR:'''
Regarding grapes, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, by James Parker, says on p. 602 (s.n. Vine),
"When blazoned proper the leaves should be vert, the fruit purpure."
[[http://www.sca.org/heraldry/loar/2005/03/05-03cl.html|March 2005 LoAR Cover Letter]]

'''From the October 1995 Cover Letter:'''
When using brown, defined as "proper", the entire charge/creature is tinctured brown. As per:
"PRECEDENT: Henceforward, and more in line with period heraldic practice, animals which are normally brown may be registered simply as an {X} proper (e.g., boar proper, hare proper). Animals which are frequently found as brown but also commonly appear in other tinctures in the natural world may be registered as a brown {X} proper (e.g., brown hound proper, brown horse proper). This precedent does not, however, loosen the ban on "Linnaean proper" (Cover Letter, May 13, 1991); proper tinctures for flora and fauna which require the Linnaean genus and species to know how to color them. For example, a falcon proper will be considered to be all brown, not brown head, wings and back, buff breast with darker spots, and a tail striped with black; a hare proper will be considered to be all brown, not brown with white underbelly and tail and pink ears. This also appears to be more in keeping with period heraldic practice."
[[http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/1995/10/cvr.html|October 1995 Cover Letter]]



====<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">[[#x--Precedents:-Registerability:]]<u>'''Registerability:'''</u></span>==== 
<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)</span>

'''From February 2007 LoAR:'''
In April 1985 (q.v., Cherie Ruadh MhicRath of Locksley) Laurel ruled, "The color of a flamingo's feathers is apparently dependent on its diet, so there really is no 'proper' color." This has been interpreted to mean that flamingos proper could not be registered; however, pink flamingos proper have been registered since that time, including as recently as April 2006. The 1985 precedent is hereby overturned; a pink flamingo proper is registerable. It is dark pink while the tincture of its beak and legs are treated as artistic license. Its tincture is a color, not a metal.
[[http://www.sca.org/heraldry/loar/2007/02/07-02lar.html|February 2007 LoAR]]

'''From the October 1995 Cover Letter:'''
When using brown, defined as "proper", the entire charge/creature is tinctured brown. As per:
"PRECEDENT: Henceforward, and more in line with period heraldic practice, animals which are normally brown may be registered simply as an {X} proper (e.g., boar proper, hare proper). Animals which are frequently found as brown but also commonly appear in other tinctures in the natural world may be registered as a brown {X} proper (e.g., brown hound proper, brown horse proper). This precedent does not, however, loosen the ban on "Linnaean proper" (Cover Letter, May 13, 1991); proper tinctures for flora and fauna which require the Linnaean genus and species to know how to color them. For example, a falcon proper will be considered to be all brown, not brown head, wings and back, buff breast with darker spots, and a tail striped with black; a hare proper will be considered to be all brown, not brown with white underbelly and tail and pink ears. This also appears to be more in keeping with period heraldic practice."
[[http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/1995/10/cvr.html|October 1995 Cover Letter]]


====<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">[[#x--Precedents:-Conflict:]]<u>'''Conflict:'''</u></span>==== 


====<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">[[#x--Precedents:-Identifiability:]]<u>'''Identifiability:'''</u></span>==== 




====<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">'''<u>Collected Precedents:</u>'''</span>==== 
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (May 2005 - July 2008)</span>'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"> - </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">[[http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/elisabeth/armory.html#PROPER|PROPER]]</span>
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The 2nd Tenure of François la Flamme (October 2004 - May 2005) - </span>'''<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">[[http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/sca/armoryprec.html#PROPER|PROPER]]</span>
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Shauna of Carrick Point (May 2004 - August 2004) -</span>'''
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of François la Flamme (August 2001 - April 2004) -</span>'''
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Elsbeth Anne Roth (June 1999 - July 2001) -</span>'''
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Jaelle of Armida (June 1996 - June 1999) -</span>'''
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The 2nd Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (November 1993 - June 1996) -</span>'''
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme (June 1992 - October 1993) -</span>'''
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The 1st Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (June 1990 - June 1992) -</span>'''
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane (September 1986 - June 1990) -</span>'''
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Baldwin of Erebor (August 1984 - August 1986) -</span>'''
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Wilhelm von Schlüssel (August 1979 - August 1984) -</span>'''
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Tenure of Karina of the Far West (December 1975 - June 1979) -</span>'''
'''<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Early Days (June 1971 - June 1975) -</span>'''



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