Cultural depictions of Ned Kelly Products manufactured a die-cast "Ned Kelly" repeating cap pistol, which was widely marketed in the mid-1940s. Its design bore no obvious attempt at historic relevance. The distinctive homemade armour Kelly wore for his final unsuccessful stand against the police was the subject of a famous series of paintings by Sidney Nolan. Ned Kelly is a recurring theme in the work of Ha-Ha (Regan Tamanui), one of Melbourne's foremost street artists. Since 2002, he has put up many stencils of Ned Kelly's face in the laneways of Melbourne, which have become an icon of Melbourne street art. He described Kelly as
Ned Kelly beard Australian rules football term. Celebrities who have been said to sport the Ned Kelly beard style include Australian rules football player Jimmy Bartel, politician Phil Cleary, Socceroos captain Mile Jedinak, and freestyle skier Anton Grimus. In 2008, journalist Mark Willacy described Hamas military leader Salah Shehade as having a "square Ned Kelly beard". Ned Kelly beard A Ned Kelly beard is a style of facial hair named after 19th-century Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly. It consists of a full, luxuriant beard and a moustache, and is typically accompanied by short, styled hair. Although the term dates back to the