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Creating: Designers, Artists and Manufacturers
Making a coat of arms requires great artistry and artisanship. The finished artefact will be no mere decoration but an enduring emblem of public, corporate or personal identity. A heraldic artist may interpret the blazon (or description) of the Arms in a variety of ways, provided that the blazon is accurately represented.
This gallery shows the creating of the new NSW Coat of Arms by Phoenix Foundry of Uralla, NSW for installation in the NSW Parliament in 2006. It provides some insights into the designing of the NSW Coat of Arms by William Applegate Gullick during 1905-06, and also shows some examples of historical crafting and manufacturing of coats of arms.
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| Working on the clay pattern
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| Plaster pattern with lettering
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| Reworking details of the kangaroo
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| Assembling the mould
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| Pouring the metal
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| The rough casting
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| Finishing the casting
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| Ready to paint
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| First coat of paint, sans crest
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| Installed at last
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| Centennial Stamp of 1888
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| Diamond Jubilee Stamp of 1897
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| A heraldic chart, 1890s
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| The first view of the proposed Arms, 1906
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| Azure, a cross Argent
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| A cross Argent voided Gules
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| A fleece Or
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| A golden garb
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| A rising sun each ray tagged by a flame
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| A lion rampant guardant
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| A golden kangaroo
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| How brightly you shine
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| A representation of the Arms, 1927
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| Wunderlich mass-production, 1936
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| Melocco Brothers, skilled artisanship, 1940
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