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Examples:

Period:

Red with pink?:

Zacharias

Zacharias Bartsch, 1567, f38r, demi-owl displayed, pink?

An Ordinary of Siebmacher's Wappenbuch

• http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/heraldry/siebmacher/siebmacherordinary.html

Artifacts

Information A	Information B	Information C

Modern:

Pictorial Dictionary, 3rd edition:

• http://mistholme.com/pictorial-dictionary-of-heraldry

Per Mistholme, may use PicDic art for submission purposes without prior permission.

Vector Graphics:

• Book of Traceable Heraldic Art - http://heraldicart.org/

Sources:

• Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Heraldry Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/
• Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi
• Laurel Armory Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/armory_articles.html
• https://iiif.biblissima.fr/collections/ - website that searches multiple great digital libraries

• New Heraldic Primer (Heraldry for Non-Heralds) - http://heraldry.sca.org/armory/newprimer/
• Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry (PicDic), 3rd Edition - http://mistholme.com/pictorial-dictionary-of-heraldry
• Period Armorials

• Parker's Heraldry - https://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker/index.htm
• Rietstap's Armorial Général - http://www.coats-of-arms-heraldry.com/armoriaux/rietstap.html

Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Definition:

(includes defaults, proper tinctures, blazoning)

Registerability:

(Restricted, Reserved, SFPP, OOP)

January 2022

Zoete Steenhagen. Name and device. Per pale argent and sable, a pink lily of the valley proper and in chief two wooden shoes addorsed counterchanged. Crampette found a grey-period depiction showing pink lilies of the valley in Det Grønne Florilegium by Hans Simon Holtzbeck, t. 132 f. 246, dated 1634-1664 (http://plantgenera.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=426450). We generally give the benefit of the doubt for date ranges, as long as the earliest date is pre-1650.

For purposes of conflict this pink lily of the valley proper is tinctured vert: "the lily of the valley takes its tincture from its leaves". [Eadgyth of Chelchythe, 7/2012, A-An Tir]. The flowers of the plant are, of course, pink.

https://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2022/01/22-01lar.html#61

February 2007 - pink flamingos proper

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. February 2007 LoAR

July 2004 - trilliums proper

Jerusha Kilgour. Purpure, a trillium argent barbed vert seeded Or and on a chief argent three cats couchant sable. .... Blazoned on the LoI as proper, the trillium flower as drawn is mostly white with little purple flecks, green sepals, and a yellow center. Given that trillium flowers appear in nature as purple, red, pink, and white, there is no reasonable "default" tincture for a trillium. Henceforth, the tincture of a trilliums must be blazoned explicitly. We have reblazoned this trillium flower according to its emblazon. http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2004/07/04-07lar.html

January 2004 - damask roses proper:

Cecily d'Abernon. Device. Azure, on a pale between two turtles argent three damask roses proper slipped and leaved vert. The damask roses proper are drawn as naturalistic pink roses. The Letter of Intent cited the Pictorial Dictionary, which states that "When blazoned as a 'garden rose' or a 'damask rose', the rose is depicted as found in nature, the petals overlapping and slightly spread... a garden rose may not be blazoned 'proper', but must have its tinctures explicitly blazoned. (The exception is the 'damask rose', a breed attested in Elizabethan herbals; this variety was always pink, so a 'damask rose proper' is pink, slipped vert)."The commentary was consistent in feeling that we should no longer blazon charges as damask roses, since damask roses are garden roses...

The commentary also took issue with the statement in the Pictorial Dictionary that the damask rose was "always pink": both the commentary and the researches of Wreath's staff indicated that damask roses in the Elizabethan period could be found in both pink and white forms.

If a "garden rose" is just an artistic variant of a heraldic rose, and a damask rose is a garden rose, then the "damask rose proper" has a problem because heraldic roses may not be pink, as pink is not a heraldic tincture. Some commenters suggested that perhaps the pink roses could be considered a "light gules" but the color of these roses is too far from gules to be considered a "light gules" (and is, moreover, too far from argent to be considered a "dark argent.") ... Because the pink naturalistic damask rose is not found in period heraldry, is not compatible with period heraldry, and is not found with great frequency in existing SCA heraldry, it will no longer be registered as of the July Laurel meeting. http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2004/01/04-01lar.html

October 1995 - brown proper

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." October 1995 Cover Letter

September 1981 - pink camellias

Loren Leonie. Sable, a unicornate lion's head erased Or between in fess two pink camellias, stalked and leaved, slips entwined in base, proper. (Camellia reticulata) [registered without comment] https://heraldry.sca.org/loar/1981/09/lar.htm

Collected Precedents:

• 2nd Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (April 2011 - August 2011) - Collected Armory Precedents
• 1st Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (May 2005 - July 2008) - Collected Armory Precedents
• 2nd Tenure of François la Flamme (October 2004 - May 2005) - Collected Armory Precedents
• The Tenure of Shauna of Carrick Point (May 2004 - August 2004) - Collected Armory Precedents
• 1st Tenure of François la Flamme (August 2001 - April 2004) - Collected Armory Precedents
• The Tenure of Elsbeth Anne Roth (June 1999 - July 2001) - Collected Armory Precedents
• The Tenure of Jaelle of Armida (June 1996 - June 1999) - Single HTML Document
• 2nd Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (November 1993 - June 1996) -
  • the 1st part (Nov 1993 - June 1994) and
  • the 2nd part (July 1994 - June 1996)
• The Tenure of Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme (June 1992 - October 1993) - Collected precedents
• 1st Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (June 1990 - June 1992) -
  • the 1st year (June 1990 - June 1991) and
  • the 2nd year (July 1991 - June 1992)
• The Tenure of Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane (September 1986 - June 1990) - Collected Precedents
• The Tenure of Baldwin of Erebor (August 1984 - August 1986) - Single HTML Document
• The Tenure of Wilhelm von Schlüssel (August 1979 - August 1984) - Collected Precedents
• The Tenure of Karina of the Far West (December 1975 - June 1979) - Collected Precedents
• The Early Days (June 1971 - June 1975) - Collected Precedents

The Ordinary:

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