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by Mark Sensen, 14 November 1996
The upper stripe of the flags of the VOC and GWC was at first orange,
and changed like in the Dutch flag to red between 1630 and 1660.
Sometimes a little "v" was attached to the "W". According to Klaes
Sierksma this was done by the GWC Amsterdam Chamber to form an "A". Another
variant was a large "I" with a "W" over a "C" placed on it.
Source: "Vaandels van de Westindische Compagnie" in Spiegel
Historiael (Dutch magazine for history and archeology) April 1975,
which is an article about a 17th century manuscript found in 1974 in which
50 military Colours of troops of the GWC were documented.
Mark Sensen, 30 July 1998