Fun With Flaggeek

🇺🇸 Confederate “Southern Cross” flag (printed cotton), FG-054. Printed cotton example measuring 85 × 140 cm (approx. 3 × 5 ft). Blue saltire with thirteen white stars on red ground, likely mid-20th century manufacture. Owner reports use at a 1966 Chicago counter-protest (unverified).

⚓ Kriegsmarine Water Sports Flag (1936 pattern), FG-053. Cut-down example: originally 80×135 cm , now 78×87 cm (~43 cm removed at the fly). Hoist-biased disc/anchor; red wool bunting; heavy cotton-canvas hoist with internal rope; darkened ring; no maker stamp observed.

⛑️ DGzRS Maritime Rescue Flag, c.1938–1945. 68×89 cm wool bunting flag used by the German Maritime Rescue Service. Hand-stitched rope attachment, ribbed cotton header — no stamps or serials present.

🇩🇪 Imperial ensigns didn’t vanish after 1945 — they resurfaced in West Germany during the 1960s. This example, FG-045, is a Bonner Fahnenfabrik production: wool-blend, 80×128 cm, with its hoist cut away and replaced by a pole sleeve.

🇩🇪 German service flag by Schneider Nossen (FG‑036) .

🇺🇸 Field-grade 48-star US flag from WWII era – Defiance brand with steel grommets and wartime production label (1942–1943). .

🇩🇪 Heavy, coarse, and pre-Nazi – Weimar-era tricolour? .

🇩🇪 Civil-used German Empire flag from the 1930s? .

🇺🇸 Textbook Navy flag with rare dual-attachment system. Bridgman-documented “PAT’D 1884” grommets, handwritten name, and large 45-star layout.

🇮🇱 Early civilian flag from Old Jerusalem, ca. 1948–56 .

🇳🇱 Modified NSB flag with post-war civilian use Discovered in a deserted NSB residence in The Hague, this Dutch flag was later altered by the Keuris family after the fall of the collaborationist regime. It now stands as a unique and well-documented example of political neutralization and wartime memory.

🏴 Rare Imperial Service Flag (Reichsdienstflagge) – official state flag flown on embassies, consulates and colonial stations.

🇩🇪 Compact Nazi-era “Wassersportflagge” likely used by civilian boats or regatta events. Small size, but all the classic signs.