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zachary harden
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image by Randy Young, 02 April 2015
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The revived state flag of Lithuania is the same as pre-war state flag. According to
information received by the list the flag was re-introduced by a
Law dated 1 September 2004, and differs from the its earlier
version in that the reverse is now the same as the obverse
Christopher Southworth, 20 January 2004
Photo by Christian
Westerback at "Helsingin
Sanomat" (First published in print 8 April 2004; report
by Kaius Niemi), show Lithuanian state flag used as jack.
Jan Mertens, 28 July 2007
Lithuania state historical flag (Lietuvos valstybes istorine
veliava). Image scanned it from the "Heraldry of
Lithuania" book.
On red field Vytis (the charge of National
Arms). Flag proportions 3:5.
- this flag symbolizes the legacy of Grand
Duchy of Lithuania,
- in the inter-war Lithuania there it was called the State Flag (when the tricolor was called
the National Flag) and used as the presidential flag,
- in 2004 it was re-legislated in the Law of National Flag and
called the Lithuania State Historical Flag,
- the law obliges flying this flag perpetually: on the Grand
Ducal Palace in Vilnius, on the Trakai Castle and at the War
Museum in Kaunas; also at some state institutions in particular
days.
Virginijus Misiunas, 3 January 2010
I've seen several pictures where the Coat of arms of
Lithuania is actually displayed on a red horizontal flag, as seen
here and
here.
(Image1 and Image2)
Sources:
http://www.truelithuania.com/double-masted-flags-a-new-type-of-monument-in-vilnius-4162
http://www.truelithuania.com/interwar-kaunas-to-be-styled-european-heritage-5300
Since I found no explanation on our Lithuanian pages (at first I thought it was
a Presidential flag, but that was not the case, since what we have as
Presidential flag is
something else). Then I
thought it might be a military flag, but again, what we have in
military flags does not correspond with the
flag I am reporting today.
So can anybody please help me find out what this flag is?
I've found some interesting bibliography on the coat of arms (http://www3.lrs.lt/pls/inter/w5_show?p_r=4056&p_d=9978&p_k=1 and
http://www3.lrs.lt/pls/inter/w5_show?p_r=4056&p_d=17268&p_k=1) to
start with, but any conclussive evidence might help in trying to find
out what this flag is.
Esteban Rivera, 01 April 2015
This is Lithuanian state flag, used at a limited number of places and days,
as specified by the
National Flag Law.
Tomislav Todorović, 01 April 2015
I know we already have a graphic of the Lithuanian state flag, but I felt that the
grey/silver horse and knight didn't match up with the photographs posted by
Esteban, so I recreated the state flag with the horse and knight in white. I
think this looks closer to the flags from the photographs.
Randy Young, 02 April 2015
I think this is how it is supposed to look.
Tomislav Todorović, 02 April 2015
The heraldic silver is indeed white in the flags, so that's a good match. I
guess your image is a likely Vytis. However, the jack seems
to be of the darker blue variety. So if you're making that one as well, you
might use the darker shade there to show that Vytis doesn't always have the
exact same colours. E.g.
http://defendinghistory.com/over-1000-neo-nazis-fill-main-vilnius-boulevard-on-lithuanian-independence-day/32439.
On eBay, BTW, Tatmingpoon2
sells his flags with an even bigger knight, but that's no guarantee original
flags have that too.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 02 April 2015
For what this is worth,
website of the Lithuanian president has the technical specifications. The
drawings are from 2010. Most of his flags are printed images taken from
Wikipedia, so if the Wikipedia image is wrong (and in this case, it was one that
I did from government vectors of the arms), then this flag is wrong.
Zachary Harden, 02 April 2015
