Surfing through rec.heraldry, I found this thread from 1996 or thereabouts. FWIW, I still use these arms; though for my sibling and posterity, I have abandoned the notion of cadency marks within the family (though my brother still has the silversignet ring and full-color armorial mug I gave him decades ago with the crescent).
Surfing through rec.heraldry, I found this thread from 1996 or thereabouts. FWIW, I still use these arms; though for my sibling and posterity, I have abandoned the notion of cadency marks within the family (though my brother still has the silversignet ring and full-color armorial mug I gave him decades ago with the crescent).
On Friday, September 21, 2018 at 1:59:11 AM UTC-5, mfmccar...@gmail.com wrote:signet ring and full-color armorial mug I gave him decades ago with the crescent).
Surfing through rec.heraldry, I found this thread from 1996 or thereabouts. FWIW, I still use these arms; though for my sibling and posterity, I have abandoned the notion of cadency marks within the family (though my brother still has the silver
Which kind of fits with those who point out that even in England, one of few places that emphasize that "arms belong to people, not family names", the so-called rule is honored more in the breach, than in the observance.
On Friday, September 21, 2018 at 1:59:11 AM UTC-5, mfmccar...@gmail.com wrote:signet ring and full-color armorial mug I gave him decades ago with the crescent).
Surfing through rec.heraldry, I found this thread from 1996 or thereabouts. FWIW, I still use these arms; though for my sibling and posterity, I have abandoned the notion of cadency marks within the family (though my brother still has the silver
Which kind of fits with those who point out that even in England, one of few places that emphasize that
"arms belong to people, not family names", the so-called rule is honored more in the breach, than in the
observance.
I beg to differ.
As eldest son and heraldic head of my family, I am entitled to allow my younger brother to bear my coat of arms without difference if I want to. I may decide how they should be used.
As a matter of interest, one of the earliest grants of arms by a herald, one by Roger Leigh, Clarenceux, was made in 1440 to the grantee himself, his heirs, “and his assigns” (Wagner, ‘Heralds and Heraldry’ (1956) p 74).
But I’m not sure how I would defend them -- perhaps under the common law tort of passing off, even if the Court of Chivalry has fallen into desuetude.
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