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image by Jaume Ollé 04 December 2009 and Miles Li, 11 April 2014
The five-striped design shows that this was probably a pre-1928 flag.
Miles Li, 18 May 2002
The flag is shown on a photo of a junk in
Atlas of Flags in China by Huang Mingyan (China Peace Publishing
House, Beijing 2003, ISBN 7-80154-833-7)
Miles Li, 20 May 2007
The white flag charged with national flag in canton and letter of post and a
wild goose.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 04 December 2009
It was the Postal Ensign (1919-1929). Proportions 5:8.
Miles Li, 11 April 2014
image by Jaume Ollé 04 December 2009 and Miles Li, 10 April 2014
The white flag charged with white sun on blue sky and letter of post and a
wild goose in fly.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 04 December 2009
The goose on the flag is a reference to the Chinese idiom 'travel a thousand
miles to deliver a goose's feather - the object is light but the thought is
deep'.
Miles Li, 10 April 2014
image by Miles Li, 18 May 2014
Source: Flaggenbuch 1939
image by Miles Li, 18 May 2014
Source: Flaggenbuch 1939