Brass plaques are eye-catching because no one makes them on a whim. They are more costly than wood or plastic, and processing them is proportionally difficult. [Becky Stern] picked the medium to ...

Davies was an American diplomat and husband to Marjorie Merriweather Post, who built the Mar-a-Lago resort that now belongs to the president, and where presumably he first saw the coat of arms.

What exactly is a coat of arms? The armorial achievement, as it is known in heraldic terms, dates back to medieval times as a ...

There are a couple of thousand different Polish coats of arms. You might expect that these would all include images of some lofty or knightly character but that isn’t always the case. Many are ...

The ACT's coat of arms has been displayed incorrectly as part of the government's "logo" on a number of public buildings around Canberra. In some cases, the swans appear to be the wrong way around.

Definition of "coat of arms": an arrangement of bearings, usually depicted on and around a shield, that indicates ancestry and distinctions. In scarlet red and white, this coat of arms uses elements ...

The etching method that [Switch and Lever] uses to get down to brass plaques will be intimately familiar to anyone who has etched a PCB before. Ferric chloride works as well on brass as it does on ...

Coats of arms, hereditary graphic signs identifying families of nobility, first appeared in Poland in the 13th century. The Polish use of these signs differed in some aspects from what was typical in ...

The current coat of arms originated from 1962 when Trinidad and Tobago gained independence from the UK. It features Columbus’ ...

Plaque Creation Pending: Your Senior member plaque is awaiting creation. Plaque Creation in Progress: Your Senior member plaque is currently being created by our vendor. No changes to the engraving ...

The University Arms, whose background colour is azure, contains a gold-edged open book at its centre, on which is inscribed Disce Doce (Learn and Teach). On either side is a sheaf of eight silver ...

Made in what is now modern Nigeria, in the sixteenth century, the Benin plaques are actually made of brass, not bronze. They're each about the size of an A3 sheet of paper, and they show figures ...