[ANSTHRLD] Use of Society badges by lower-level officers

[Tim McDaniel]

I forget which mailing list recently had a discussion about the use of
Society-level badges, specifically the marshallate badge.  I just
stumbled across <http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/1973/01/lar.htm>, the
LoAR for January 1973, which had

     East, College of Heralds. Purpure, two straight trumpets in
     saltire, bells in chief between four millrinds, all Or.

     All Kingdom Colleges of Heralds use the Arms of the Imperial
     College of Arms, just as all Earl Marshalls use the Arms of the
     Imperial Marshalate, and all Seneschals, Mistresses of Arts,
     Masters of Sciences and Medics use the appropriate Imperial Arms.

It's not all that well-written, as it refers to "Earl Marshalls"
(kingdom top-level officer), "kingdom Colleges of Heralds" (kingdom
top-level officer + warranted staffers), and "all Seneschals" &c
(officers at all levels).  But I think the intent, even then, was to
mandate use of the SCA-level badge SCA-wide.

(A better argument is one adduced before, based on the ban on
registering an officer badge when a higher level has a badge already.
In such a situation, I do not believe that the subordinate is
forbidden to use any badge, so I believe that the lower-level officer
using that upper-level badge is the only possibility.)

Danielis Lindonium
-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com