Why does heraldry fail?

[Witch Mountain]

If you feel we're not listening, perhaps the arguments need to be presented in a more convincing way.

Another possibility of course is: if we're not listening and responding to a post, we may just not have the necessary knowledge to do so. As JKP said, he doesn't "have the heraldic background to do this." So R.Sale, the ideas may be completely fine, but the patterns on medieval crests are probably a specialized branch of Art History in which few have training...