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As I beleif someone has already pointed out, one of the biggest problems with
promoting period style heraldry is that most designs that are simple enough to
be period conflict with the masses of period heraldry which also follows that
simple design. For example anything with a rampant feline as a single charge.
Many of us are familiar with the representations of row after row of arms that
look almost identical, differenced only by colour of the feline or the field or
even something as minor as a splt tail or a crown added to the feline charge
(the page I am thinking of is in the Oxford Guide to Heraldry but there are
others). Of course I can't register my black panther on a red and white barred
field! it conflicts with dozens of others. So my only option is to use unusual
charges, field divisions, etc so that it is different enough.

Maybe this is justified, maybe not. But it seems to me that we have to either
allow greater conflict and promote period designs, or allow periodicity to
suffer so as to protect uniqueness in armory.

Eleonora van den Bogaerde. Southron Gaard, Caid.
Simone Hindin, Christchurch, New Zealand.