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Please note that this is an alternative to a grommet and clip or decorative nails as methods of fixing a parade flag or military colour to its staff. It should be noted also however, that the practice of tying a parade flag or military colour to its staff, or affixing it with metal rings, is not entirely obsolete (see also ‘ties’).
Court of Lord Lyon King of Arms, Scotland (International Heraldry)
Table Flag of Gračišće, Croatia (fotw and CS)
Tack/Belaying Pins (Wikipedia)
Gonfalon/Ceremonial Flag of Kumrovec, Croatia (fotw);
Gonfalon/Ceremonial Flag of Breznički Hum, Croatia (fotw);
Gonfalon/Ceremonial Flag of Baska, Croatia (fotw);
Flag of Beckov, Slovakia (fotw);
State Flag of Iceland (fotw)
National Flag of Iraq (official website); National Flag of
Iran (fotw); Flag of the Waziristan Resistance Movement c1930, Pakistan (fotw)
Arms and Flag of Brandenburg, Germany (fotw)
Broad Command Pennant, USN (sea flags); Bourne Yacht Club, US (fotw); Burgee Command Pennant, USN (sea flags)
Please note that (in addition to the references given above) this term may also be applied to the flag of the state of Ohio or to the broad pennant – see ‘broad pennant 1)’.
Flag of the State of
Ohio, US (fotw);
Commodore’s Broad Pennant, Norway (fotw)
Ceremonial Flag of Abedim-Moncao (detail), Portugal (fisisco)
Flag of L’Albiol, Spain (fotw)
Telegraph Flag in Popham’s Code
Please note that it remains unclear whether the telegraph flag in Popham’s Code was divided per bend, or per bend sinister as illustrated above, or indeed, whether any such a distinction was observed in use.
Arms and Flag of Outeiro Major, Portugal (fotw).
Flags of Berlin, Germany; of
The Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf District of Berlin,
The Mitte District of Berlin and of
The Reinickendorf District of Berlin (fotw)
Arms of The Northwest Territories, Canada (ICH)
Flag of The Northwest Territories, Canada (fotw)
Flag of the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order c1500 (fotw)
Please note that this term should only be used when the cross so described has a direct connection to the Teutonic Order.
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