Flags of the (19th Century) World
Oct. 14th, 2011 02:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
4thofelevenNeat stuff found while browsing the net – an 1874 American chart of the world’s flags.
Note the very western dragon on the Chinese flag – one suspects the artist was working from descriptions and hadn’t actually seen most of these flags. Similarly, the mangling of the Mexican coat of arms and the Hawaiian flag missing the blue stripes.
Don't know what the 'Moorish' flag is supposed to be, since Morocco is listed separately.
I’d also love to know what the ‘Cochin China’ flag really was. I’m pretty sure at best it’s a misidentification of some sort of personal standard as a national flag, but I have no idea where it could be from. I’m not even sure what the author thought it was – Cochin China could mean a lot of things.
Note the very western dragon on the Chinese flag – one suspects the artist was working from descriptions and hadn’t actually seen most of these flags. Similarly, the mangling of the Mexican coat of arms and the Hawaiian flag missing the blue stripes.
Don't know what the 'Moorish' flag is supposed to be, since Morocco is listed separately.
I’d also love to know what the ‘Cochin China’ flag really was. I’m pretty sure at best it’s a misidentification of some sort of personal standard as a national flag, but I have no idea where it could be from. I’m not even sure what the author thought it was – Cochin China could mean a lot of things.