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Luxembourg: Erroneous representations of the flag

Four-striped flag
Flag with narrow central stripe
Flag with purple lower stripe

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Luxembourg

Four-striped flag

Erroneous flag of Luxembourg - Image by Jarig Bakker, 18 June 2005, after Vlaggenalbum, 1914

The Vlaggenalbum, published by Droste's cocoa-factory in Haarlem in March 1914, shows the flag of Luxembourg with four horizontal red-white-blue-white stripes.

Jarig Bakker, 18 June 2005

I have seen this as Landesfarben in I think an edition of Die Orden, Wappen und Flaggen aller Regenten und Staaten [ruh98], together with the flag of Luxembourg. Probably it was interpreted as a flag by the editor of the Vlaggenalbum.

Mark Sensen, 18 June 2005

Flag with narrow central stripe

Erroneous flag of Luxembourg - Image by António Martins, 17 February 2024, after the Shi Jie Ge Guo Guo Qi flag chart, 1998

The 1998 flag chart Shi Jie Ge Guo Guo Qi [c9n98] shows the Luxembourg flag with the central stripe only half the width of the others.

Marcus Schmöger, 7 November 2005

Flag with purple lower stripe

Erroneous flag of Luxembourg - Image by António Martins, 25 October 2023

The defunct website LituanicaOnStamps included this image (arch.). It shows a 2004 2.00 € Portuguese postage stamp, along its souvenir sheet, showing the flags of the European Union member states — the ten new ones flowing from the outside to the center, to join the extant fifteen.

The flags on this stamp show a few of the usual mistakes, e.g., all the 15 flag on the center are in 2:3 ratio, incorrect for half of them (the other 10 flags are shown intentionally deformed), there’s no color shade difference between German golden and other yellows, nor between British red and other reds, nor between Greek blue and other blues, etc.
The flag of Luxembourg (presumably) has its bottom stripe colored in a pale purplish shade, and not in the usual lighter blue — likely an attempt at it, made clearly necessary by the contiguous presence of the otherwise identical Dutch flag, and therefore not a printing error but a design mistake.

António Martins, 25 October 2023