Pacific heraldry

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Re: Pacific heraldry

Postby JMcMillan » 17 Apr 2017, 16:41

Chris Green wrote:The latter is a proper heraldic badge, having been granted by the College of Arms


So until the College of Arms started granting them circa 1900, there were no proper heraldic badges? ;)
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Re: Pacific heraldry

Postby Chris Green » 18 Apr 2017, 05:46

So until the College of Arms started granting them circa 1900, there were no proper heraldic badges?


"Proper" as having been designed and approved by an heraldic authority, as against a design cobbled together by a "design consultant" or perhaps by someone in the Public Works Department.
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Re: Pacific heraldry

Postby Bruce E Weller » 18 Apr 2017, 10:09

Interesting, so perhaps one could go "backwards" from an assumed badge design to an assumed achievement?

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Re: Pacific heraldry

Postby Chris Green » 18 Apr 2017, 10:43

Bruce E Weller wrote:Interesting, so perhaps one could go "backwards" from an assumed badge design to an assumed achievement?


No reason why not, except perhaps that heraldic badges are not usually exact clones of the principal charge on a CoA.
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Re: Pacific heraldry

Postby Chris Green » 18 Apr 2017, 17:48

For further general discussion of badges see http://amateurheralds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1238
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