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PRECEDENT: In view of its strong suggestiveness of a "Hand of Glory", a hand appaumy or averse enflamed may not be used as a charge in Society heraldry. (LoAR 26 Apr 87, p. 9)
No difference can really be derived from a sinister hand versus a dexter hand. (LoAR 18 Jun 89, p. 9)
There seemed to be some confusion on the part of some commentors between the "Hardship Clause" and the "Grandfather Clause". The former is designed to aid submittors who have through no fault of their own had submissions delayed for a period of time in which the rules have changed. There is normally a time limit for such submissions to legitimately claim leniency under this clause. The Grandfather Clause, on the other hand, protects from future rules changes armory which has already been registered. (LoAR 28 Feb 87, p. 20)
Convincing evidence was provided ... that the submittor has been making a good faith effort to register this submission since the tenure of Mistress Karina, efforts frustrated by a series of accidents and losses to the extent that we feel the "hardship clause" should apply. (LoAR 19 Dec 87, p. 5)
The "hardship case" argument is really not applicable here. The intent of that lenience was to allow for heraldic misfeasance or non-feasance and the rules specifically state that it applies only where "a submission may unreasonably be delayed in processing, through no fault of the submitter". In this case, the primary reason for non-submission seems to have been not heraldic error but internal disagreement on the appropriate name for the Order. (LoAR Jun 88, p. 17)
Note that the unicorn’s head cabossed is rather poor style; in this posture the distinguishing features of the unicorn’s head are nearly unidentifiable. (LoAR 26 Oct 86, p. 7)
The head of a minotaur is a bull’s head and cannot be distinguished as a minotaur without the remainder of the creature. (LoAR 25 Jan 87, p. 18)
The default for a cat’s head is not cabossed. (LoAR Aug 87, p. 2)
There is a clear point of difference for the differences of posture, but the double-heads are not sufficiently visible against the peacock’s tail to add the necessary extra difference. (LoAR Aug 87, p. 14)
[Experience] seems to indicate that modern sensibilities, as much as period perceptions, would consider the fleur-de-lys completely different from any variant of human or beast head. (LoAR 31 Oct 87, p. 7)
The "proper" tincture for a boar’s head is brown. (LoAR 21 Feb 88, p. 2)
A point and a half cannot be derived for the difference in type of two heads. (LoAR Jul 88, p. 19)
While the rules allow a minor for the difference between a head couped and a head erased, a comparison of the two emblazons indicated that the primary differences of type between the wolf’s head and the alaunt’s head here were that the ears were different (one was pricked and the other floppy) and that the wolf’s head was open to show the fangs. That did not seem enough to difference the two under our current rules. (LoAR Jul 88, p. 19)
There was a strong feeling that adequate difference in type exists between a walrus head and a buck’s head to apply section X.2 of the new rules and carry this clear. (LoAR 28 May 1990, p. 2)
The submittor’s own documentation casts serious doubt on the use of the earhorn prior to the seventeenth century and shows such a variety of forms that no one single form could reasonably be deduced. (LoAR 30 Oct 88, p. 3)
After much soul-searching and a comparison of the emblazons, we decided that the shapes are too similar for complete difference of charge to exist between a goblet and an hourglass ... under both the old rules and the new. The visual assonance is very clear: the only difference between the two devices with the hourglass drawn in one of its standard Society depictions (i.e., without the posts) is the balance and "fatness" of the lower portion of the goblet. (LoAR 26 Nov 89, p. 36)
It might be suggested to the submittor that the style and posture of the human figure [courant] is not really period. (LoAR 29 Mar 87, p. 15)
The human charge issuant from the line of division is a distinctly anomalous usage. [Returned for this and other problems] (LoAR 19 Mar 88, p. 19)
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