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![[City of Caulfield flag]](../images/a/au-vicau.jpg)
image by Nozomi Kariyasu, 8 December 2011See also:
The City of Caulfield was in southeast Melbourne. It began as a roads district in 1857, becoming a shire in 1871 and a city in 1913. It merged with parts of Moorabbin to form the City of Glen Eira in 1994.
![[City of Caulfield flag]](../images/a/au-vicau2.jpg)
image located by Jonathan Dixon, 27 November 2011
Valentin today
posted on Facebook an image of a standard, taken from the Letters Patent
granting the city's arms on 1 May 1977. (see
http://www.gleneira.vic.gov.au/Page/page.asp?Page_Id=1930&h=0).
The
arms are blazoned:
Per pale Argent and Gules barry counterchanged on a Fess
per pale Gules and Or a lion passant counterchanged.
Crest: Out of a
Mural Crown Or a Dragon's Head erased Gules within an Amulet compony Or and
Azure, mantled Gules doubled Argent.
A badge was also granted: Within
an Annulet compony Or and Azure on a Mural Crown Gules a Chestnut Horse
passant saddled and bridled proper. Each supporter was a Dragon wings
inverted Sable the underside of the wings body and tail Or armed and langued
Gules gorged with a Mural Crown and resting the interior hind leg on a winged
Wheel Or.
The standard shown has a red and white border, with the arms at
the hoist - a lion counterchanged red on yellow/yellow on red with
alternating bars of red and white above and below. The fly is white, with two
red bands bearing the Latin motto "LABORE VINCES" (trans: By our labours we
shall conquer) in yellow in between the City's badge (the Chestnut horse on a
mural crown in a blue/gold annulet), crest (red dragon's head with blue
tongue coming out of a mural crown within a blue/gold annulet, and the badge
again.
I would be surprised if this standard ever made it of the vellum
of this letters patent, but I hope it is if of some interest anyway. I'm
not sure how, well, standard, it was to have a standard included in the
Letters Patent at that time.
Jonathan Dixon, 28 November 2011
Nozomi sent me a photo of an actual flag he bought while living in the city
in the 1990s. This flag is a banner of arms, with two bars of red and white
counterchanged stripes both above and below the central lion panel.
Jonathan Dixon, 8 December 2011
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