British flags, their early history, and their development at sea; with an account of the origin of the flag as a national device (1922)
Perrin, William Gordon, 1874- · Cambridge University Press · leaf 26
h an emblem atthe top, which is believed to represent the district or town to whichthe owner of the boat belonged. There are at least eighteen different * The Theorike and Practike of moderne zcarres, 1598. ^ The fact that the object represented is really a boat has been disputed, butthere seem to… … I] AND ITS DEVELOPMENT 7 forms of this emblem^, but these standards all agree in having intheir upper part two pendent objects which appear to be long ribbonsor streamers attached to the pole. These standards were developedinto the nome-standards of the Egyptian armies, but they never againappear…
Flags -- Great Britain
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