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image by Dave Martucci, 7 May 2002
As used in the City Chambers. See also reverse.
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Section 1-2-3 of the Concord City Code reads:
City Flag. The City flag shall be of the design indicated below with or without the words "Concord" and "New Hampshire" as they appear thereon. The official design and color scheme of the flag will be on file with the City Clerk.
image by Dave Martucci, 7 May 2002
image by Dave Martucci, 7 May 2002
image by Dave Martucci, 7 May 2002
The flag used in the City Chambers differs from the flag officially described, having only one blue bar. The reverse of this flag retains the arrangement of the stagecoach, so is not a mirror image:
image by Dave Martucci, 7 May 2002
Based on the above incomplete research, I have arranged the flags of Concord in the order I believe they should be in chronologically. More research, as noted, needs to be done to verify these designs and dates.
This flag was located in the auditorium of the Public Library. This flag is made of a synthetic fabric, probably Nylon, three vertical stripes of white-blue-white, with the City Seal appliquéd and embroidered in the center, with a dove holding a red scroll inscribed "NEW HAMPSHIRE" in gold over the top and the words "CITY OF" in gold on the hoist stripe and "CONCORD" in gold on the fly stripe. The flag is in pretty poor condition and my examination leads me to believe the flag was probably made around 1950, which seems about right given the further information we uncovered.
image by Dave Martucci, 7 May 2002
In the City Clerk's Office the Assistant handed me a newspaper clipping. It was published in the Concord Monitor on 22 October 1979. The cover illustration was in full color and showed yet another flag (that's five!) that was being proposed to the City Council. [see above] It shows two unequal vertical stripes of blue-white and has a white dove and star on the blue and the Concord Coach and two inscriptions, "CITY OF CONCORD, N.H." arched over the top in blue and "1853" in white on a blue scroll
below.
The article, entitled "Coach, Dove And Star Highlight Flag Committee's Offering," by Randall Keith, Monitor Staff Writer, was printed on page 2. It explained the symbols as follows:
image by Dave Martucci, 7 May 2002