[Artemisia] question about Letters and AoA's

[Dawn Tavares]

The gentle Wolf, Morgan, intoned:

>Artemisia, when someone receives an Award of Arms, they are girded with a
>black belt and dagger by the Crown, symbolizing that they are trusted to
>come armed into the Royal Presence, and given a golden "A", to signify that
>they are an Artemisian Armiger.

Pardon me, but...I thought the golden "A" was an award unto itself, not 
linked to the state of the recipient's bearing an AoA. Or do I misconstrue?

So many shades of nuance,
Aurora de Portugal

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