[antir-heralds] Conflict Question

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Britt wrote:

{Snip excellent information.}

> For maintained charges, which do not count for difference, I present
> the following Laurel precedent found under the tenure of Francois la
> Flamme, Collected Armory Precedents, CHARGE -- Maintained and
> Sustained:
>
> Since the July 1992 LoAR, the term maintaining has been used for
> grasped or held items which are too small to be worth difference.
> Sustaining and supporting have been used for a grasped or held item
> which is of comparable visual weight to the item holding it, and thus
> worth difference. In cases where other blazon words are used for the
> act of holding an item, the blazon is ambiguous about whether the held
> item is significant or not. It is true that the term maintaining
> literally derives from a Latin phrase for holding in a hand, and thus
> is not ideal for blazoning an item which is held in the mouth, or by
> the tail, of an animal. However, it seems preferable to remove the
> blazon ambiguity and use the word maintaining in these cases. [Godwin
> Alfricson, 08/01, A-Ansteorra]
>
> So you're not taking my word for it. Laurel said. :)
>   

Here's a great opportunity to show why (so-called) "conflict checking" 
via the Blazon Pattern Search Form (available via http://oanda.sca.org/) 
is Not A Good Idea™. Using that form to check "sustained by" get 67 
results; all of them *since* July 1992! If one used the form for 
"sustaining" and "supporting," those 67 results would be missed. Plus 
there are 134 "holding"s (including a reblazon as recent as April 2007), 
and 2 "held by"s.

As has been thumped into my skull, the SCA Ordinary (and its index) at 
http://oanda.sca.org/ordinary/index.html is the best way to conflict 
check. :-)


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