# South Carolina State Flag Crescent: Origin of story that it represents a gorget?

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**Created:** [July 10, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-state-flag-crescent-origin-of-story-that-it-represents-a-gorget/790917 "2017-07-10T13:38:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-state-flag-crescent-origin-of-story-that-it-represents-a-gorget/790917/21 "2017-08-02T15:22:47Z")

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The coat of arms of William Bull is a gauntlet holding a dagger under a gorget. The image is definitely not a crescent moon as the points are facing up and are almost touching.

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**Author:** ![StarsApart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@StarsApart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarsApart)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-state-flag-crescent-origin-of-story-that-it-represents-a-gorget/790917/22 "2017-08-03T00:26:08Z")

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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> 😕 “vertical file?”

A vertical file is a file libraries keep that might hold articles, brochures, little tidbits of information they get asked often and don’t want to keep looking up. Like a brochure of hiking trails in the area, local history, etc. Most of them nowadays probably contain nothing newer than 1995. 😃 We just cleaned ours out at my library.

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