Greetings from Lothar, Elspeth asked if there are Period examples of many points. My short answer is "Yes and No, depending on what you mean." In Period heraldry the most common forms of mullets are the mullet of five, the mullet of six, and the mullet of eight. These were, interchangably used as both stars and spur rowels, as far as I can tell from Period blazons. A sign that the mullet was used as a rowel as opposed to a star was that it would be pierced, though this is not always the case, and quite often the charge is just blazoned as a "mullet" and the emblazon is left up to the artist. I have found examples of mullets of five in English, French, and Portuguese heraldry. I have found examples of mullets of six and eight in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, and Hungarian heraldry. And, until recently, I thought that mullets of seven weren't Period. I was wrong. In O Gran Livro (Livro da Armeiro Mor) a Portuguese armorial codex of 1509 there are a number of devices that specifically have mullets of seven. The quality of the artwork and the fact that all the mullets in the same device are mullets of seven makes me believe that this is deliberate, and that mullets of seven did exist as something other than artist's errors. However, the only example of mullets of seven that I have ever found outside of this book is a single example from the Argentaye Tract, which is a 15th c. French source. Mullets of multiple points (more than eight) are extremely unusual. I can find one example of a mullet of many rays in Konzil zu Konstanz, a 15th c. German/Swiss source. The quality of the artwork in this book is not high though, and there are a number of misattributed or unattributed devices. It is entirely possible that this mullet of 32! is actually a misdrawn sun. (It is "Azure, a mullet of 32 Or." and is described as being the arms of Graff Dydacus vo[n] Fnentsalida von Arragony - i.e. a Duke from the Kingdom of Aragon. If someone has a book of Spanish armory to look in, then they might be able to discover a more correct emblazon and attribution of the arms.) In Period it is seems that suns could be drawn as mullets of sixteen points. (e.g. the banner of Jean de Luxembourg ca. 1486 at p. 140 Neubecker Heraldry:SSM). The other "pointy things" with more than six arms are suns and estoilles. Estoilles are drawn with six or eight points. Suns are drawn with eight or more points. In all cases the arms of the charge are wavy. Furthermore, these charges are vanishingly rare in Period heraldry. I've only seen a few examples of suns and/or estoilles from Period heraldry in memory. Here is what I have NOT found in Period heraldry: Mullets of Four. Mullets of more than Eight but less than Sixteen points. Mullets with one or more arms deliberately elongated. Mullets with alternating short and long points. It is my belief that these charges are Non-Period Style. This interpretation is based on my (limited) survey of available Period rolls and other heraldic sources. The nearest example that I've found to something that looks like a compass star is from a quarter of the attributed arms of the Inca kings. It has sixteen points and might have slightly elongated arms, but the quality of drawing makes me think that this might not be intentional. The source looks to be a 17th c. Spanish armorial (p. 142 Neubecker Heraldry:SSM). [?1h=[24;1H[7m Command ('i' to return to index): [m ??