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Photo of the gonfalone
at <www.sulpm.info>.
Eli Gutterman, 9 November 2005
image by Jaume Ollé, 25 October 1998
I believe that the Ducal standart in blue with white crowned
eagle. Pictured in Vexilla Italica is
another version of this flag.
Jaume Ollé, 25 October 1998
image by Jaume Ollé, 25 October 1998
Modena first existence under Este dinasty was from 1288 and
until 1797, and it existed again
after a french rule between 1814 and 1829. The flag was blue with
white eagle, and crown above the eagle head. Here is the same
flag without crown as the maritime ensign. In old plates you can
see the crown but with less detail. New flag was adopted 1830.
Red-white-red horizontal and in center blue-white-blue vertical.
Arms added in national flag and no added in mercantile ensing.
Jaume Ollé, 25 October 1998
The cover of [sie63] shows what
the book describes as approximately a quarter of a flagchart, one
of many to roll of the, mostly Dutch, presses for the use of
seafarers: "Tableau des Pavillons que la Plupart des Nations
arborent a` la Mer. Faitau de'po^t des cartes et plans de la
marine pour le service des vaisseaux du Roy par ordre de M. de
Machault, Garde de se'aux de France. Par le Sr. Bellin Inge'nieur
de la marine. 1756." [beL56]
On the 3rd row from the bottom there is - "Pav. de
Modene" - A blue flag with a white eagle beaked blue,
outstretched wings arcing slightly upward. [The blue beak may
well be a colouring error since the eagle's head is coloured blue
further than you'd expect the beak to go.]
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 4 January 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 27 June 2003
No. 734 - Modena.
Source: [stb62]
Jaume Ollé, 27 June 2003
image by mario fabretto, 11 June 1997
This is probably for an historian. The flag on Modena (Italy):
red/white/red horizontal with blue/white/blue vertical and
centered over the r/w/r stripes. I know it flew during 1848 with
a short two or three month interlude when the Green/white/red
tricolor intervened. but when was it first raised, and when was
it finally superseded?
Bruce Ward, 25 November 1996
The flag was adopted in 1830 and superseded in 1859. The State
flag had the arms in the middle.
Mario Fabretto, 2 December 1996
Modena State flag : red-white-red horizontal crossed
blue-white-blue vertical, with shield. Adopted in 1830 and used
until 1859. This was the State and war flag. The civil ensign was
the same without the arms.
Sources:
A. Ziggioto "Le bandiere degli Stati italiani" on
"Armi Antiche" (1970)
A. Ziggioto "Le bandiere degli Stati italiani
pre-unitari" on Vexilla Italica 1, XXIV (1997)
Mario Fabretto, 11 June 1997
New flag was adopted 1830. Red-white-red horizontal and in
center blue-white-blue vertical. Arms added in national flag and
no added in mercantile ensing.
Jaume Olle, 25 October 1998
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image by André Serranho
