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Naval Ensign, National Emblem
and Civil Ensign of Israel (fotw and Wikipedia)
Please note that the Magen David is also known as the Seal of Solomon and as such may be represented as a pentagram of with five points as it now appears on the flags of Ethiopia and Morocco (based on the Hebrew Encyclopaedia) - see ‘pentagram’.
National Emblem of Ethiopia
National Flag of Togo in the golden mean/magic ratio (fotw)
Flag of the Mail/Postal Service, Russia (fotw);
Royal Mail Pennant, UK (fotw)
Please note that in the sailing/steam-assisted navy, the command flag of a full-admiral was formerly flown in this position (also balls of difference, flag of command and
flagship).
Flag of an
Admiral 1853, Austria/Hungary (fame)
Examples: Chief; Cross; Pale; Saltire; Fess; Pile; Chevron; Quarter; Bend
Examples of Major’s Colours, English c1641 (fotw)
MTLQ in the 1866 Commercial Code of Signals from 1880 The International Code
of Signals - and the number of SS Australia (P&O Lines) c1898
Please note that use of two flags to indicate the country of registration applies only to a call sign hoist in the current International Code.
Naval Ensign, UK (fotw); Naval Ensign
South Africa 1952 1981 (fotw)
Flag of the Grand Master of the Military Order of Malta (fotw);
Flag of Villars-Sainte-Croix, Switzerland (fotw);
Flag of Lora del Rνo, Spain (fotw)
Notes
a) With regard to 2) in strict heraldic terms a cross of this type should be
correctly called a cross pattιe fourche as referenced above.
b) The cross on the national flag of
Malta is not a Maltese cross but is the emblem of a British order of
gallantry the George Cross see George
cross.
Flag of Portel, Portugal (fotw)
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