Please contact a herald to assist you in the submissions process. They will have valuable experience that can help you avoid potential problems with your submission. If you can’t find a herald locally, please contact the Red Flame Herald for a referral.
Your submission must follow the Rules for Submission and the SCA College of Arms Administrative Handbook in order to be acceptable; failure to do so can cause your submission to be returned. This includes using the official submission forms (see below) and including all necessary documentation. An experienced herald will be able to walk you through these rules.
Costs
The cost of a heraldic submission is $10 CDN. A name and device are separate submissions and would therefore require $20 CDN payment. Should your submission be returned for any reason, you may resubmit any changes to your name or device free of further charge, providing the resubmission is done within 18 months of the date on the return letter. American Tir Righ citizens (Thornwold) may submit in USD, for the same $10 fee. Cheques or money orders must be made payable to the “Principality of Tir Righ”. Please do not send cash through the mail, and remember that Tir Righ Heralds (other than Silver Sparkes and Red Flame) are not warranted to handle money – do not pay your local herald.
Administrative items, such as heraldic wills and transfers, are free.
Submission instructions
Before you send your assembled submissions, ensure you make one extra copy for your local Herald and one extra copy for you to keep should anything be lost in the mail.
Send your assembled submissions to the Tir Righ Submissions Herald at:
Tir Righ College of Heralds
c/o Vanessa Giddings
213 409 Ash Street
New Westminster, BC
V3M 3N1
We are now accepting electronic submissions for free items only. Name and armory submission forms can be scanned in at 300 dpi and submitted as jpg files, or filled out electronically and submitted in pdf format. Administrative items require your mundane signature, and should be scanned in at 300dpi and submitted as jpg files.
Send resubmissions within the 18-month grace period and administrative items only to: SilverSparkes@tirrigh.org
You may continue to mail these items in as well.
Heraldic Submission Forms
Important Update, 11 March 2023: There are entirely new submission forms for all heraldic submissions. Individual links below will be updated shortly but all forms can be found on the An Tir Herald Submission Form page.
| Submission Type | Required Form(s) |
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| Personal or Household Name |
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| Branch Name |
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| Award or Order Name |
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| Armoury using Core Style |
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| Armoury using Individually Attested Pattern |
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Colouring your badge or device
The College of Heralds has traditionally recommended colouring your device and badge submissions with Crayola Classic Markers; they are true to the heraldic tinctures and hold their colours well while being subjected to the heat, time, and humidity that comes with postal travel. Therefore, it will be less likely that your submission will be returned for the tinctures being unidentifiable. Coloured pencils and crayons can melt and the dyes from inkjet printers can change colour significantly over the course of days or weeks. The use of colour copies is also not recommended. Submissions which cannot be scanned in clearly and true to colour may be returned. In particular, the most common problems are due to using any shade of grey for argent or sable, or anything leaning towards orange for Or.
Do not attach printouts of armoury images to the form with glue or tape. Ensure that the art is drawn directly on the form.
If you are using entirely digital art for an electronic resubmission, please ensure that you use clear, pure colours – the following are strongly recommended:
- Argent (white): #FFFFFF or RGB (255, 255, 255)
- Or (yellow): #FFFF00 or RGB (250, 250)
- Azure (blue): #0000D6 or RGB (0, 0, 215)
- Gules (red): #D60000 or RGB (215, 0, 0)
- Vert (green): #00A400 or RGB (0, 165, 0)
- Purpure (purple): #8912DD or RGB (137, 18, 221)
- Sable (black): #00000 or RGB (0, 0, 0)