Fun With Flaggeek

🇩🇪 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.

🇩🇪 A heavy wool Imperial war ensign from the interwar years, reused in WW2 veteran parades to mark the Battle of Jutland.

Flag Care Guide — Rolling on a Core and Tube 🧵 Practical flag care for hobby collections. Acid-free materials, gentle crease correction, fold-lengthwise + roll, archival tube storage, and stable climate.

🇩🇪 Kriegsmarine Gösch 80 × 135 cm — Textildruck Arlt, Schönheiderhammer. Typical U-boat/small-craft jack with rare red dye bleed in the printed roundel.

🇩🇪 Bonner Fahnenfabrik multi-piece German national flag (centred roundel), likely pre-1935 — captured in Cologne on 7 March 1945; provenance documented (anonymised).

🇯🇵 A small cotton Rising Sun flag with eight Midwestern U.S. veterans’ signatures — tied to the 33rd Infantry Division and 136th Infantry Regiment during the early occupation of Japan.

🇩🇪 A fortress under blockade: La Rochelle remained in German hands until May 1945, supplied only by sea. The garrison’s war ensign was flown on the harbor building throughout the siege.