[MR] FW: [AtlantianHeralds] Heraldic Term of the Day - Erased

[Beverly Robinson-Curry]

The visual example I gave yesterday for erased was not so hot (I had a hard
time finding _any_; none in Atlantia sprang to mind).  Under current rules,
it would not pass.  My colleague, Teceangl, provided the appropriate
precedent and better examples, so I am forwarding those for your
edification.  See below.

Rhiannon 

Mistress Rhiannon ui Neill
Triton Principal Herald
House Corvus, Atlantia

> Why the given example is returnable:
> 
> If the submitter chooses to use a beast's head erased in future
> submissions, please advise him to draw the erasing correctly. As
> Laurel explained in the Cover Letter to the November 2001 LoAR, "[F]or
> purposes of recreating period armorial style for erasing, the erasing
> should (1) have between three and eight jags; (2) have jags that are
> approximately one-sixth to one-third the total height of the charge
> being erased; and (3) have jags that are not straight but rather are
> wavy or curved." The minimalistic erasing found in the current
> submission is cause for return in its own right. [Arnfinnr Ákason,
> 03/05, R-Lochac]
> 
> The big precedent on couped and erased should be REQUIRED reading for
> consulting heralds. Find it in its entirety at
> http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/precedents/francois/wreath.html
> #COUPED
> Go read it, everyone. Now.  :)P
> 
> Some good examples of erasing:
> Period:
> http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ZurichRoll/
> numbers 223, 343, and 355. Look at the original images in the lefty
> column. The first two are particularly good.
> 
> Modern:
> http://badger.cx/heraldry/roll/display.php?id=1652
> http://badger.cx/heraldry/roll/display.php?id=702
> http://badger.cx/heraldry/roll/display.php?id=219
> 
> 
> I had a hard time finding period examples. Couped seems to be the
> period norm.
> 
> - Teceangl