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''' DUMFRIES ''' (Burgh) | ''' DUMFRIES ''' (Burgh) | ||
Additions : 1931 Maxwelltown<br> | Additions: 1931 Maxwelltown<br> | ||
Incorporated into : 1975 [[Nithsdale]] (1996 [[Dumfries and Galloway]]) | Incorporated into: 1975 [[Nithsdale]] (1996 [[Dumfries and Galloway]]) | ||
[[File:Dumfries.jpg|center|400 px]] | [[File:Dumfries.jpg|center|400 px]] | ||
===Official blazon=== | |||
Azure, semee of estoiles Or, standing on a cloud the figure of the Archangel Michael, wings expanded, brandishing in his dexter hand a sword over a dragon lying on its back in base with its tail nowed fessways all Proper, on his sinister arm an escutcheon Argent charged with a cross Gules; in dexter flank an increscent, in the sinister flank the sun in his splendour of the Second. | Azure, semee of estoiles Or, standing on a cloud the figure of the Archangel Michael, wings expanded, brandishing in his dexter hand a sword over a dragon lying on its back in base with its tail nowed fessways all Proper, on his sinister arm an escutcheon Argent charged with a cross Gules; in dexter flank an increscent, in the sinister flank the sun in his splendour of the Second. | ||
Above the Shield is placed a mural coronet suitable to a Royal Burgh and under the same this Motto "A Lore Burne". | Above the Shield is placed a mural coronet suitable to a Royal Burgh and under the same this Motto "A Lore Burne". | ||
===Origin/meaning=== | |||
The arms were officially granted on August 20, 1931. | The arms were officially granted on August 20, 1931. | ||
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|align="center"|[[File:Dumfries.jj.jpg|350 px|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms as used on a [[Jaja|JaJa postcard]] +/- 1905 | |align="center"|[[File:Dumfries.jj.jpg|350 px|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms as used on a [[Jaja|JaJa postcard]] +/- 1905 | ||
|align="center"|[[File:Dumfries.haguk.jpg|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms in the [[Coffee Hag albums]] +/- | |align="center"|[[File:Dumfries.haguk.jpg|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms in the [[Coffee Hag albums]] +/- 1935 | ||
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{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Literature]] : Urquhart, 1974, 1979, 2001; top image from The Court of the Lord Lyon facebook page | [[Civic Heraldry Literature - United Kingdom|'''Literature''']]: | ||
Urquhart, 1974, 1979, 2001; top image from The Court of the Lord Lyon facebook page | |||
[[Category:United Kingdom Municipalities D]] | [[Category:United Kingdom Municipalities D]] | ||
[[Category:Scotland]] | [[Category:Scotland]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1931]] | [[Category:Granted 1931]] | ||