[ANSTHRLD] Armory-Fieldless Question

[Tim McDaniel]

On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Jennifer Smith <jds at randomgang.com> wrote:
>    [Argent, on a pile between two catamounts combattant sable a sword
>    inverted proper transfixing a skull argent.]  Note: this is not four
>    layers since we do not count overall charges as adding another
>    layer." (LoAR 8/96 p.9).
>
> [What's the overall charge in that blazon?? - Emma]

Skull or sword.

> Older, but...
>
>    [A gurges... overall on a sinister gore a <charge>] "This is four
>    layers (field, gurges, gore <charge>). ..." (LoAR 2/92 p.18).
>
> I found several other older precedents that also seem to indicate
> that overall charges ARE counted as a separate layer.  In which case
> your proprosed badge does indeed run afoul of the layer limit.

Huh.  On the other hand, those are older.  I could easily be wrong,
then, or perhaps precedent has changed.

Daniel de Lincolia
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