... Decorators' symbols, emblems & devices / by Guy Cadogan Rothery ; with original designs by E. Fletcher Clayton.

  • Guy Cadogan Rothery
Date:
1907
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Credit: ... Decorators' symbols, emblems & devices / by Guy Cadogan Rothery ; with original designs by E. Fletcher Clayton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    staff, is a blue square with a white cross. The top of the square should rest on the top of the third white stripe. The Roumanian flag is divided into three perpendicular bands, blue, yellow, and red ; the blue nearest the staff, the red in the fly. Servia’s flag is divided into three horizontal bands of equal width, red, blue and white, the red being uppermost. Bulgaria’s flag is also divided into three hori- zontal bands, white, green and red ; the white being uppermost. The Turkish flag is red with a golden crescent, a star of five points being shown nearly within the horns of the crescent. The Egyptian flag is crimson. Near the staff are two silver crescents one above the other, and a third just in front of the horns of the other two. Nearly within the horns of each of the crescents is a silver star of five points. The Persian flag is white, with a border round the sides of it (top, fly, and bottom) of a red stripe and a green stripe, the red stripe being outwards. Walking on the lower green stripe is the red lion of Persia facing the spectator, the dexter paw uplifted and holding a scimitar, the tail reflexed over the back. Behind the lion is a golden sun in splendour. In the royal standard, a Persian crown is placed just above the sun. The Japanese royal standard is scarlet with a gold^chrysanthemum. The flower is formed with sixteen petals, club-like in form, the points radiating from the central small disc ; the broeid edge of the
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