Family crest of Duitgenius completed

ByKoen van Velzen 04-02-201409-02-2026

After several days of sanding, filing and rasping the crest stone with the open carved family crest of Duitgenius finished, as far as this concerns the carving. It is about 80 x 80 cm tall and ten cms thick.

The next step is polychromy. More on this later.
Sometime in the month of March the finished coat of arms will be installed.

Nasty the first message about this project.
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