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Herein we provide some details on how
to custom order from us, what our privacy policy is, how to contact
us, shipping policy and other items.
- What do you consider Custom Artwork?
Highland Engraving has a large image gallery from which to choose.
Any of the Highland Engraving library images are considered "standard" and
there is no set-up fee. If a customer provides artwork (in
the required format) or wishes to modify a standard file image,
the $25.00 artwork setup fee applies.
Coats of Arms and clan crests are on file. Feel free to contact
Grant to find out what other pictures he has on file.
- How do I place a custom order?
Working through the product options, you may be able to nail
down some of your order details using the pulldown menus. Use
these where applicable -- some are required options (such as
Size, Color) when ordering through the online order form.
Include as much detail as you can provide using the pulldown
options and the "Customer Options" text box.
Please submit only contact information and details about your
custom item at this time through email.
Grant will process the final total of your order through a secure
POS terminal at his end and will ask you to submit your credit
card information through fax or phone when necessary.
Upon submitting the email order estimate, Grant will work closely
with you to finalize details of your order, receive any client
artwork, and quote a final price for the project.
You may also call, fax or email Grant directly with
your idea for artwork and what material you'd like to use.
Ph: 303-422-2515
Fx: 303.422.4704
Email: grantmc@highlandengraving.net
- Why don't you have an option for standard artwork or designs
beyond the Scottish Coats of Arms? Don't you have a library
of artwork to use?
Yes, we do have an extensive library of many types of artwork.
Much of it is only licensed for Highland Engraving's use and
to post it to the website would be a violation. If you email
us with an idea of what you're looking for in design, we can
preview that slice of our thousands of images through email or
fax.
Our design library is very extensive and we will be posting some
galleries beyond our Coats-of-Arms.
The library has an enormous array of images but the laser engraving
won't stop there.We find that many of our orders are personalized
with artwork or photographic images from the client's life.
Email or call Grant with your idea -- something you saw at a
show, a shop, in someone's home, or a unique idea in your mind's
eye.
- What rules govern clan coat of arms and clan crests?
This comes under the purview of Armorial Bearings, Crest Badges
and Acquisition of Grants and Matriculations of Arms. Whew!
That's a mouthful that covers the sets of rules and governances
laid down over the centuries to protect the rightful ownership
of the coats of arms (COA).
First off, there is no such thing as a "Clan coat of arms". The
arms are those of the Chief, and clansmen have only the privilege
of wearing the strap-and-buckle crested badge to show they are
such Chief's clansmen. This is repeated further down in this
portion of the rules reprinted here from a leaflet published
by the Court of the Lord Lyon, HM New Register House, Edinburgh,
EH1 3YT.
Armorial Bearings
Armorial bearings, being for distinguishing persons of, and within,
a family, cannot descend to, or be used by, persons who are not
members of the family. The surname indicates the family to which
a family belongs. A person named Macdonald cannot bear a Ross
coat of arms, or any part of it.
The Chief's coat of arms fulfils within the clan or family the
same purpose as the Royal Arms do in a Kingdom. There is no such
thing as a "family crest" or "family coat of arms" which anyone
can assume, or a whole family can use.
Armorial bearings, of which the Crest is a subsidiary part, are
a form of individual heritage property, devolving upon one person
at a time by sucession from the grantee or confirmee, and thus
descend like a Peerage. They indicate the Chief of the Family
or Clan, or the Head of each subsidiary line or household descending
from members who have themselves established in the Public Register
of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland a right to a subsidiary
version of the arms and crest, containing a mark of difference
indicating their position in the Family or Clan. This is not
a "new" coat of arms, it is the ancient ancestral arms with a
mark of cadency, usefully showing the cadet's place within the
family. It identifies where you, and your own heirs, belong within
the family. It is, as well as being beautiful, a valuable system
of identification.
The parts of the armorial bearings consist of:
- The Shield, bearing the basic device
- The Helmet, with its Crest, which sits on
top of the helmet
- The Motto in a scroll
- The Mantling or cape, which kept the sun off
the wearer's armour in hot weather
- Very rarely, two Supporters on either side
of the shield, which are external attributes of the arms
of Peers, Chiefs and a very few other persons of special
importance, including Knights Grand Cross of Orders.
It is illegal to assume and purport to use your Chief's arms
without a due and congruent recorded difference. Anyone who does
so merely publishes their own ignorance.
There is no such thing as a "Clan coat of arms". The arms are
those of the Chief, and clansmen have only the privilege of wearing
the strap-and-buckle crested badge to show they are such Chief's
clansmen.
One cannot have a crest without first having a shield of arms,
because the crest was a later addition. Misuse of crests arises
from misunderstanding of the badge rule under which junior members
of the family may wear in specified manner their Chief's crest
as badge.
Crest Badge
The Crest of the Chief is worn by all members of the Clan and
of approved Septs and followers of the Clan, within a strap and
buckle surround bearing the Chief's motto. This is for personal
wear only, to indicate that the wearer is a member of the Clan
whose Chief's crest-badge is being worn. The badge or crest is
not depicted on personal or business stationery, signet rings
or plate, because such use would legally import that the tea-pot,
etc., was the Chief's property! Acquisition of Grants and Matriculations
of Arms Those who wish to use arms in any particular sense must
petition for a Grant of Arms or -- if they can trace their ancestry
back to a direct or, in some cases collateral, ancestor -- a "cadet
matriculation" showing their place with the family. Forms of
Petition and sample proof-sheets relative to such application
can be supplied if required.
When a grant, or matriculation, of arms is successfully obtained,
an illuminated parchment, narrating the pedigree as proved, is
supplied to the Petitioner, and a duplicate is recorded in the
Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland and/or the
Public Register of Genealogies and Birthbrieves.
Application for such a Confirmation, by Letters Patent or Matriculation,
from the Lord Lyon King of Arms is the only way to obtain a genuine
coat of arms.
Tartans
People normally wear only the tartan (if any) of their surname,
or a "district tartan" connected with their residence or family's
place of origin. Check out the Tartans
page for more information.
- What are your shipping policies?
We use UPS primarily. Closest proximity shipper to the shop and
will pickup from our shop.
We can make arrangements to ship by other methods such as FedEx
and USPS. For shipping methods other than UPS, contact
Grant directly or submit the order as a custom order
through the email order form option. Don't include your credit
card information at this time.
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