[ANSTHRLD] Armory-Fieldless Question
Tim McDaniel
tmcd at panix.com
Sun Nov 10 21:09:57 PST 2002
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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