ANSTHRLD - conflict check badge

[Jennifer Smith]

Magnus von Lübeck wrote:
> A charged lozenge cannot be used with a fieldless badge.
> The device would become Purpure, an equal armed Celtic 
> cross argent.
> LoAR May 1996 
> Returns - DRACHENWALD Ragna Kolgrimsdotti
> [(Fieldless) On an oval azure a horseshoe argent] "If 
> a charge can be considered a medium for heraldic display, 
> it may not bear a tertiary in a fieldless badge: such a 
> design is interpretable as a display of arms, with the 
> tertiary as a primary.  For instance, we don't permit 
> [Fieldless] On a lozenge argent a fleur-de-lys gules: 
> since the lozenge is a medium for heraldic display, 
> this looks like a display of Argent a fleur-de-lys gules.   

A plain lozenge would be obvious, yes, as would a roundel or an 
oval, etc, but a lozenge dovetailed?  That was where I was most 
unclear.  It doesn't look to *me* like a medium for heraldic display, 
but that's why I'm asking. :)

> 2) It could have an argent field.
> The argent field looks to conflict with George Emerson 
> True March of 1988 (via the East):
> "Argent, on a lozenge palewise throughout purpure, a 
> winged lion rampant guardant to sinister, wings elevated 
> and addorsed, argent."
> There should be a CD for type for the dovetailing 
> but I am not sure about a CD for throughout.

Of the suggested alternates, this is the best one.  

-Emma

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Jennifer Smith
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