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[stb62]

Remarks: Green cover. Flags sorted by main colour.

Full title is Vlaggen van alle Natiën, opgedragen aan zijne Koninklijke Hoogheid Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden / Pavillons de toutes les Nations, dédiés à son Altesse Royale le Prince Henri des Pays-Bas / Flags of all Nations, dedicated to his Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Netehrlands. The subtitles are not printed on the cover. Note that the name of the author is not Van Steenbergen, but Steenbergen (at least that’s how it’s written in the book).
Mark Sensen, 30 Jun 2001

[stb65]

Remarks: More luxurious edition than [stb62], with a green cover. Steenbergen mentioned as editor. Flags sorted by main colour.

Full title is Vlaggen van alle Natiën, opgedragen aan zijne Koninklijke Hoogheid Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden / Pavillons de toutes les Nations, dédiés à son Altesse Royale le Prince Henri des Pays-Bas / Flags of all Nations, dedicated to his Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Netehrlands. The subtitles are not printed on the cover. Note that the name of the author is not Van Steenbergen, but Steenbergen (at least that’s how it’s written in the book) .
Mark Sensen, 30 Jun 2001

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[ste53]

It is described by J. L. Loughran as « The first edition in 1953 had 500 in colour and 100 or so more items in black and white. Not so well printed »as [ste63].« there was a high degree of accuracy in the contents».
David Prothero, 25 Sep 2005

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[ste63]

Remarks: Hard cover.

This is listed as an enlarged edition of the original work by Colin Stewart (1953) [ste53] with additional flags added by John S. Styring. The work shows 1010 flags and funnels of maritime shipping companies worldwide (all in a 3:5 ratio). The arrangement is by funnel color with the flag beside the funnel. There is a separate smaller section dealing with hull colors. There are several indices at the back of the book that provide alphabetic listings to the page where a specific image is located.

The 1953 edition is cited in Wilson’s Flags at Sea [wil99] as a bibliographic source. The 1953 edition went through 5 reprints before this, the second, edition was published.

The book was originally designed, according to the textual material, for use in shipping offices and aboard ships.

Captain Stewart is listed in the source material as an Extra Master Mariner. Styring also published other works on maritime house flags and his index cards of over 10,000 house flags are at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, U.K.

It is described by J. L. Loughran as «In its time, probably the best cheap book of flags and funnels ever published. Very accurate and well printed containing 1010 items in full colour from most maritime nations. »« The first edition in 1953 [ste63] had 500 in colour and 100 or so more items in black and white. Not so well printed there was a high degree of accuracy in the contents».
David Prothero, 25 Sep 2005

[ste65]

[stf54]

[stg71]

Remarks: About house flags of shipping companies, with pictures of all the emblems on the flags and funnels of ships with British registry as of 1971. Styring died before the color proofs of the book were reviewed. Various editions (1926 to 1971).

[stg76]

Remarks: 800 shipping houseflags. Revision to Seventh Edition (1971)

I’m not sure that this really is an 8th edition:

• since Styring died before the 7th edition was published, he won’t have edited another BF&F published five years later, unless the print time is extremely long.
• The British Library have [lgr82] as the 8th edition, and the previous edition as 1971.

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