[antir-heralds] memorials using devices

[Ursula Georges]

> For memorials, I could see using someone's device in a display, like a display of
> arms for a scroll of honor. I'd think in a similar way that a persons device is
> used on a tourney board. That usage indicates "I'm here in this tourney", but not
> "I'm here on this tourney board". (I suppose a badge would technically say "I own
> this tourney board"?). So a memorial display would say "these folks are being
> remembered". 

Remember that in our period, devices (and some badges) were passed down 
in families.  Devices can be inherited in the SCA, too.  There's a 
standard heraldic will:

http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/admin.html#APPENDIX_D

Without a heraldic will, the College of Heralds assumes that the right 
to a device belongs to a person's legal heir:

http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/admin.html#IV_G

Ursula Georges.