Use/Display of Personal Arms?

 
Kenneth Mansfield
 
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07 April 2011 15:46
 

I see others have put "computer desktop wallpaper" as one of their uses, which I neglected to include in my list. I have two super-badass widescreen monitors at work with a lot of room to fill. On my primary monitor (where all the desktop icons tend to pile up) I have a blank sky with my virtual banner on it. On the other monitor, I have my achievement surrounded by other Mansfield arms from Burke’s General Armory.

LEFT:

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6992/desktop2010l.jpg

 

RIGHT:

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/2319/desktop2010r.jpg

 
 
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07 April 2011 18:23
 

What a great idea, Kenneth.

I especially like the second.

 

Regards,

 

Iain Boyd

 
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07 April 2011 21:51
 

Mr. Mansfield, that banner is awsometastic!  Desktop wallpapers… genius!

 
Kenneth Mansfield
 
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08 April 2011 11:42
 

Iain Boyd;81967 wrote:

What a great idea, Kenneth.

I especially like the second.

JBGarrison;81969 wrote:

Mr. Mansfield, that banner is awsometastic!  Desktop wallpapers… genius!

Thanks. Here is my actual set-up:

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/5411/mydeskp.jpg

 
 
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08 April 2011 15:31
 

That gives me a great idea. I’ve got two monitors to fill. How did you get a virtual banner? Does it wave? Also whose are all those arms along side yours?

 
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08 April 2011 15:57
 

Dcgb7f;81972 wrote:

That gives me a great idea. I’ve got two monitors to fill. How did you get a virtual banner? Does it wave? Also whose are all those arms along side yours?

The banner doesn’t wave. That would be way too distracting. The arms surrounding my achievement are just various Mansfield arms listed in Burke’s General Armory - to the best of my knowledge, no relation to me.

 
 
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08 April 2011 22:21
 

I do the same as Kenneth in that I have an emblazonment of my Arms as done by Barry Burr on my desktop both at work and at home. Two reasons, one is personal pride in my Arms and two to raise awareness in Heraldry amongst my workmates and students. Some success in that as several have asked and expressed a modicum of interest.

I also use the shield only (again by Barry) on my letterhead, as part of my email signature and as my avatar on all forums that I frequent and Facebook, same reasons as above.

 
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09 April 2011 00:58
 

Kenneth Mansfield;81973 wrote:

The arms surrounding my achievement are just various Mansfield arms listed in Burke’s General Armory - to the best of my knowledge, no relation to me.


The one on the bottom right looks a lot like generic Howard, without the augmentation. Any idea if there is a reason?

 
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09 April 2011 11:14
 

Charles E. Drake;81976 wrote:

The one on the bottom right looks a lot like generic Howard, without the augmentation. Any idea if there is a reason?

That is one of two listings for Mansfield in Burke’s that doesn’t at least give a location. It would make sense (going by blazon alone) that there is some relationship to the Dukes of Norfolk, given that the only difference is the cotices, but I don’t know anything about this family. The listing simply reads:
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Mansfield. Gu. a bend cotised betw. six crosses crosslet fitchée ar. (another, crosslets or).

 

 
 
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11 April 2011 15:13
 

Might the Mansfield blazon suggests some old feudal relationship—tenant to superior?

 
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21 April 2011 12:57
 

I like the visiting/calling card idea.  I’ve also long considered a tattoo of my arms; but I am all but certain that my wife would veto that idea (in the most literal sense of the word).


Dohrman Byers;81306 wrote:

My arms are also etched on my tombstone, which I erected when I erected the tombstone for my parents.


But Father, what if you are one day elevated to Bishop (or higher)?  Won’t that change the "proper" emblazonment of your arms?


BCT;81329 wrote:

...Beyond that, my wife painted some wooden shields for our kids (5 and 3) to play knights with.


That’s a great idea!


George Lucki;81356 wrote:

But most importantly, I have a depiction of my arms in Lego pieces made by my daughter when she was about in grade three.


That’s the best!

 
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22 April 2011 17:30
 

steven harris;82121 wrote:

But Father, what if you are one day elevated to Bishop (or higher)?  Won’t that change the "proper" emblazonment of your arms?


Chances of that are very slim. If such a misfortune were to befall me, I would simply need a new tombstone.

 
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25 April 2011 15:21
 

"Chances of that are very slim. If such a misfortune were to befall me, I would simply need a new tombstone."

I’ve heard that it takes three current bishops to ordain a new bishop; and that the reason is because after hearing the charge (the job description), it takes two to hold him down while the third does the honors.

 
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15 September 2011 22:46
 

David Pope;81302 wrote:

All,

In what ways do you actually use/display your own personal arms?

 

I know all the the hypothetical uses (jewelry, seal, banners, livery for servants:wink:, etc.) that are typically given, so what I’m asking for is not for a list of hypothetical or acceptable uses, but the actual way you display your arms.

 

Do you have a banner?  Do you have a signet ring?  Do you use a seal?  Do you have stationary with your crest/arms?  Did you commission an artist to paint your arms so you could display it in your house? (As a sidenote, has anyone commissioned any flying heraldry from CaberDancer Graphics in South Carolina?)

 

My observation of the actual use of personal heraldry is skewed towards those possessing Scottish Arms (where armigers’ banners are often displayed at clan gatherings, armigers’ crests are displayed as silver cap badges, etc.), so I’m wondering if there is a difference in the way that Americans with assumed arms tend to use/display their arms.

 

David


As an American Scot, I tend to use heraldry in much the same way that British Scots would. Here are some examples:

 

my cap badge:

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5483920890_158e7210d3.jpg

 

dress sporran:

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5212/5463433433_140f517077.jpg

 

powder horn:

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5298/5483922352_8762f87512.jpg

 

A couple of commercially produced items:

 

http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a470/the_scotsman1745/crest badges/Akinscufflinks.jpg

 

http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a470/the_scotsman1745/crest badges/Akinspocketwatch.jpg

 
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16 September 2011 01:13
 

In another thread—recent but well before the latest entry in this thread—IIRC we discussed (debated) what might be appropriate, or not, as American "best practices" in the context of ethnic festivities such as Scottish games.  I don’t have anything to add to what I said there.