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image by Ant�nio MARTINS-Tuv�lkin, 09 Mar 2017

Unidentified Gabonese flag

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Unidentified Gabonese flag

This looks like the flag of Gabon with a black diamond. Any ideas of what flag it is?
Clayton Horner, 24 Feb 2017

Some ideas:

1. What�s the origin/source of this photo?

2. It surely does look like the flag of pre-independence Gabon, specifically due to the narrower middle stripe, without the French flag in the canton.

3. It should be noted that this flag�s overall ratio seems to be the same infamous 3:4, but the yellow stripe thicker than reported 1/9th, being instead seemingly 1/4th. (The overall proportions assumed to be 3:4 = (9+6+9):32 = (8+1+6+1+8):(14+6+14), the latter including the ersatz rectangle enscribing the lozenge.)

4. A black diamond/lozenge is usually a symbol of coal mining � that same convention being used in some Gabonese sub-national Coat of Arms.

5. The convention that the bottom stripe of the Gabonese national flag should be a medium/light blue, interpreted from the fact that, at least, the modern presidential flag, contrasts it to a darker shade of blue. It seems to have not been present back at the time this flag was used/designed, judging from its clearly dark shade of blue.

So my guess is that maybe this was a pre-1958 coal shipping company house flag.
Ant�nio MARTINS-Tuv�lkin, 09 Mar 2017