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The flags, apart that of the National Council, are BOAs of 4 components
of Czechoslovakia: Bohemia (white lion on red), Moravia (white and red
checquered eagle on blue), Silesia (Back eagle on yellow) and Slovakia
(white cross on a mountain on a red over blue field)"
Jean-Francois Blanc.
This stamp was released in 1998 (80th anniversary of foundation of Czechoslovakia)
and as mentioned, motive is from recruiting poster used in the USA (WW1
- prob. 1917). The unidentified flags on the stamp are probably Hussite
war flags. Here is most used flag - white chalice in red field. This flag
was used by Jan Zizka z Trocnova, but others Hussite leaders have their
own modifications of this motive, e.g. red chalice in the black field or
red chalice with small black cross in the white field.
Marek Hlávka, 28 Aug 2000
This stamp is in the Yvert-stampcatalogue #189 of the series 189/190
- and # 204 in the Stanley Gibbons catalogue.
B. Lagarrigue, 25 Apr 2003
Formerly we showed a Czech postage stamp with this same image, but very
degraded. The original is a WWI-era English-language Czechoslovakia propaganda
poster which Nozomi photographed, showing a proposed CZ flag (1:1, resembling
the last of the Isidor Zahradnik proposals among banners
of arms of the regions of CZ, with small abbreviations added to denote
units. I don't know if these were ever real colors or were merely intended
to be symbolic, so I'm not giffing them, but if anyone is interested I've
cleaned the poster up and uploaded it to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Czechoslovakia_WWI_poster.png>,
and a small version is attached to replace our previous image.
Eugene Ipavec, 25 Aug 2009
I've found some interesting/strange flags on the online digital collection
of the Library of American Congress:
The flags of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1918 here.
The one at the right is the 4-star flag.
Alex Danes, 12 Jul 2008
I checked out some references to Sokols and found this
postcard with two flags, one similar to yours. The other is like Holland's
tricolor. The card doesn't say who is what. It's a card for a Gymnastic
Festival of the Sokol Union of America, in 1921.
John Udics, 13 Jul 2008
The CZ flag shown only has four stars as far I can tell, though all
three examples in the poster are partially obscured. The 4 stars represent
Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia. Later proposals contained 5 stars,
adding Ruthenia.
Stripes are 1:1:4:1:1, fringe on fly end only.
Eugene Ipavec, 25 Aug 2009
The chalice BoA is missing from the second poster. By modifying a fair
bit the Wikipedia CoA of the Czech Republic, here are the relevant banners.
I've omitted the unit abbreviations; they were only visible on two flags
anyway, and are not present on the second poster at all.
Eugene Ipavec, 29 Aug 2009
This is the banner of arms of Bohemia (also horizontal white over red
flag)
John Udics, 30 Aug 2009
This is the banner of arms of Slovakia
John Udics, 30 Aug 2009
This is the banner of arms of Moravia
John Udics, 30 Aug 2009
This is the banner of arms of Silesia
John Udics, 30 Aug 2009
This is the Hussite war flag - used by Jan Zizka z Trocnova
John Udics, 30 Aug 2009