Dictionary of Vexillology: I (Invected - Italian Shield)

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• INVECTED (INVECKED or INVECQUED)
• INVERTED
• INVERTED CHEVRON
• INVERTED PALL
• INVERTED PILE
• INVERTED TRIANGLE
• IRISH SALTIRE
• IRON CROSS
• ISSUANT (or ISSANT)
• ITALIAN PROVINCIAL CROWN
• ITALIAN SHIELD

INVECTED (INVECKED or INVECQUED)

(adj) A heraldic term for where a division in the field of a banner of arms or shield, or the edge of an ordinary, is cut into a series of projecting curves or half circles strung together - that is with the half-circles facing outward and the points inward - invecked, envecked, or invecqued (see also ‘armorial bearings’, ‘banner of arms’, ‘coat of arms’, ‘engrailed’, ‘ordinary’, ‘shield’, and ‘scalloped’).

Flag of Sopřeč, Czech Republic (fotw); Flag of Oberhof, Switzerland (fotw); Arms and Flag of Vestre Slidre, Norway (Tomislav Šipek); Flag of Lázně Bělohrad, Czech Republic (fotw)

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INVERTED

1) On flags a term which may be used when a charge or charges, that are (or that may be) orientated vertically, are shown as being turned upside down (see also ‘chevron’, ‘pall’ and ‘pile’).

2) In heraldry see ‘reversed 2)’.

Flag and Arms of Cirkulane, Slovenia (fotw); Flag of Menàrguens, Spain (fotw)

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INVERTED CHEVRON

See ‘chevron 1)’ and ‘chevron 2)’.

Flag of Marsaskala, Malta (fotw)

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INVERTED PALL

See ‘pall 1)’.

Flag of Knjaževac, Serbia (fotw)

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INVERTED PILE

See ‘pile 1)’.

Flag of Marsaka, Malta (fotw)

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INVERTED TRIANGLE

See ‘triangle’.

A Gay Triangle Flag (fotw)

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IRISH SALTIRE

See ‘St. Patrick's Cross’.

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IRON CROSS

The term (derived from an originally Prussian later German military decoration) that describes a distinctly Germanic form of the cross pattee – see ‘cross pattée’ in ‘appendix viii’ (also ‘balkenkreuz’ and ‘Hanseatic cross’).

Iron Cross 1939-45; Naval Jack 1903–1919; Admiral’s Flag, Germany (fotw); War Ensign 1818 – 1867, Prussia (fotw)

Please note that the above term should only be used when the cross pattée being described is black and carries a white or silver border and/or is of Germanic origin.

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ISSUANT (or ISSANT)

The heraldic term used when a charge emerges out of the base of a field or a chief, from an ordinary or from the upper edge of a fess, or from a coronet. – issant – but see note below and ‘naissant’ (also ‘charge 1)’, ‘chief’, ‘coronet 1)’ and ‘fess’).

Flag of Givisiez, Switzerland (fotw); Flag and Arms of Brusy, Poland (Jarig Bakker); Flag of Jönköping, Sweden (fotw); Arms of Märkisch-Oderland, Germany (fotw)

Please note that the correct English heraldic term for a charge or figure emerging from the side of a shield, banner of arms or a flag is ‘naissant’.

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ITALIAN PROVINCIAL CROWN

See ‘provincial crown 1)’.

Flag of Alessandria, Italy (fotw)

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ITALIAN SHIELD

The term sometimes used to describe a shield of the decorative, post-medieval type most often seen in Italian personal and civic heraldry but see note below - a horse-head shield. .

The Arms of Messina, Italy (ita24)

Please note that several of the terms giving shields a national identity, as well as those describing a specific type, are still in the process of standardization, and that no consistent approach has thus far been identified.

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