Flag of the 1st Croatian and Slavonian Veteran Society of Archduke Joseph in Sisak


after 1874 Double yellow silk brocade, tassels, oak, relief embroidery, applique, carving 146 x 186 cm, length of staff 360 cm Rectangular flag with a border of embroidered black triangles and tassels on the ends. Obverse: in the centre of the field in separate cartouches the coats of arms of Croatia and Slavonia surmounted by a crown. The inscription around the coats of arms reads: I hrv.slav, veteransko druztvo 'Nadvojvode Josipa' u Sisku. Reverse: bust of Emperor Francis Joseph I with the motto: Za kralja i domovinu! The flag is fixed to the staff with brass studs. The natural coloured staff had a finial that has not been preserved. The flag was donated to the National Museum by the First Croatian and Slavonian Veterans' Society from Sisak. J. Borosak-Marijanovic, Zastave kroz stoljeca, Zagreb, 1996, catalogue number 80, page 137.




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