[antir-heralds] Style and CC: Per pale purpure and azure...

[Britt]

The following is mostly an exercise in conflict checking, since Dafydd
did a good job on his and I'm just batting clean-up here. This is one
of my random posts for folks who want to examine a check in process
for tips and info on applying the various Rules. There are also two
real oddities down there worth a look for anyone interested in the
stranger old armory of the SCA.

> Per pale purpure and azure three bees in bend Or.

All winged arthropods - bees, butterflies/moths, dragonflies - are one
CD apart, so I checked other types on identical fields.  I didn't find
anything.

Napoleon - January of 1996 (via Laurel): Azure, semy of bees Or.
One CD for changing the field by X.4.a.i.
One CD for changing the number of charges by X.4.f.
Clear.

Signe Scriffuerska - May of 2002 (via Drachenwald): Gules, three bees Or.
One CD for changing the field by X.4.a.i.
One CD for changing the arrangement from two and one to in bend by X.4.g.
Clear.

Bryony Beehyrd - June of 1985 (via the West): Per fess embattled
argent and vert, three bees passant guardant counterchanged.
Days I wish I was still on Wreath staff.  This is the sort of thing
I'd write down to pull from the files and get a look at.  Passant
guardant?:  How in blazes can they tell??  Laurel had a cryptic
comment on the registration:
     According to Julian Franklyn, "These busy insects [bees] are in
the displayed attitude
     whenever they appear, and the full term to describe them is
volant en arrière: this may
     be shortened to volant; that they are flying away from the
spectator being understood."
     (Shield and Crest, p. 132) Most of the flying insects registered
in the SCA are seen from
     behind; they have been blazoned variously as volant, migrant,
tergiant, and displayed
     (with variations). We found three examples of bees shown in
profile ­ one "volant bendwies
     wings addorsed," one "statant bendwise," and one "statant close."
We have blazoned this
     device on the model of the last two examples.
Egad.  Anyway...
One CD for changing the field by X.4.a.i.
One CD for changing the tincture of the bees by X.4.d.
One CD for changing the arrangement of the bees by X.4.g.
One CD for changing the posture of the bees by X.4.h.
Clear, but weird.

Katla in mikla - March of 2001 (via the West): Per fess gules and
azure, three bees and a cup Or.
The bees are in fess in the top section and the cup is in the bottom
section, but they are co-primaries. Blazon convention puts like
charges together on the same part of the field, so the cups will here
default to in fess, different from any other situation.
One CD for changing the field by X.4.a.i.
One CD for changing the number of charges by X.4.f.
One CD for changing the arrangement of the charges from three and one
to in bend by X.4.g.
Nothing for charge type of cup in this unusual arrangement.
Clear.

Aelfgifu Honeybee - May of 1981 (via the East): Per pale azure and
purpure, six bees volant bendwise, wings addorsed, two, two, and two,
Or.
One CD for changing the field by X.4.a.i.
One CD for changing the number of charges by X.4.f.
One CD for changing the posture/orientation of the bees from bendwise
in profile to palewise by X.4.h. They have to be in profile, for all
they're blazoned 'volant' because otherwise you couldn't tell that the
wings are addorsed, right?
One CD for changing the arrangement of the charges because you cannot
find three in bend in a two, two, and two arrangement. X.4.g.
Clear. Also weird.

Amicia Theudoric la Sauniere - April of 2005 (via Atenveldt): Per pale
embattled vert and argent, three bees in pale proper and a columbine
azure slipped vert.
One CD for changing the field by X.4.a.i.
One CD for changing the number of charges by X.4.f.
Any CD for arrangement is arguable because the Rule (X.4.g.) specifies
that you get your CD "provided that change is not caused by other
changes to the design".  Since we do not allow charges that are not
skinny to overlie a complex field division, to place the bees in bend
would be to violate this stricture. It's unnecessary, though, we get
our two CDs from clear changes.
Clear.

William of Hoghton - February of 1980 (via the West): Per pale sable
and gules, a tower Or and thirteen bumblebees migrant bendwise
sinister inverted proper. [Bombida sp.]
One CD for changing the field by X.4.a.i.
One CD for changing the number of charges by X.4.f.
One CD for changing the posture/orientation of the bees by X.4.h.
     [A bumblebee proper] The bee in this submission is tinctured
sable and Or, with argent
     wings. Bees are sometimes blazoned proper in mundane armory
(Papworth, p.957), so
     there must be a defined tincture --- but none of my sources say
what that might be. The
     coloration of this submission, however, is the SCA's most common
attempt at "proper"; I
     shall henceforth adopt it as the Society's definition of a bee
proper. (Aideen the Audacious,
     September, 1993, pg. 1)
Now, a bee is about one-third wing. I'd not expect a bee proper to get
a CD from a bee Or, but Laurel might think differently. I have found
no precedent on whether they do or not - will keep looking.
Clear without a tincture CD.

Elizabeth Blackdane - October of 1995 (via An Tir): Sable, in pale
three bees Or.
One CD for changing the field by X.4.a.i.
One CD for changing the arrangement of the bees by X.4.g.
Clear.

And the one Dafydd mentioned:
Eleanor du Pré - April of 1996 (via Caid): Vert, three bees bendwise in bend Or.
One CD for changing the field by X.4.a.i.
One CD for changing the posture of the bees by X.4.h.
Clear.

Apparently no conflicts.  Have I yet said I think it's beautiful?

- Teceangl