Civil Ensign 1865-1866 (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)

Provisional merchant flag, provisorisches Handelsflagge

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2:3 image by Jorge Candeias
Flag adopted 1865, abolished 1866

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• Historical Flags (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
• Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)
• Germany

Blue-white-red horizontal tricolor. A yellow canton filling the blue stripe.

Norman Martin, 22 January 1998

Due to the similarity with the Mecklenburg ensign a yellow canton was added to the commercial [i.e. civil] ensign. Source: Ottfried Neubecker, Vexilla Belgica 1981.

Jaume Ollé, June or July 1998