Heraldry- The color of Metals

[Ellen Anglin]

No: HPFGUIDX 7213

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Rita Winston wrote:
> 
> 
> > As bronze, despite being an Olympic medal, is not a heraldic 
metal, not even a heraldic color, not even a color which by another 
name is
> > a heraldic color. So wouldn't they HAVE to depict a bronze object
> > as or?
> 
> If they were paying even an iota of attention, yes. Or, for you who 
have
> lives, is the heraldic term for gold.
> 
Heraldic things can also be Blazoned "Proper"  Meaning that they are 
their natural colors.  I know this only because my arms in the 
society for Creative anchronisims, include "eight acorns in orle, 
proper."  I wanted brown acorns, but could not, under the rules of 
heraldry, have brown acorns on a green background- I <was> however, 
allowed to have  natural colored acorns.  Go Figure.

So if you want something bronze colored, It could, under SCA rules, 
be emblazoned as for instance "A Bronze medallion, proper."


Ellen the Beekeeper