{"title":"Standard Messages: Institutional Identity and Symbolism in Chinese Postal Flags, 1896–1949","authors":"L. J. Harris","doi":"10.5840/RAVEN2008154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/RAVEN2008154","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205647,"journal":{"name":"Raven: A Journal of Vexillology","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130745700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flags, Medals, and Decorations","authors":"Gustavo Tracchia","doi":"10.5840/RAVEN2007144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/RAVEN2007144","url":null,"abstract":"Awards are recognition of a person by superiors, peers, or friends that can take the form of a simple bunch of flowers, a speech, a certificate, a plaque, or a medal. If a medal is awarded, it should be in a style and form which allows the recipient to display it proudly. This practice of recognition began in ancient times—the Greeks called such awards ta falara. The ancient Romans made them in the form of metal discs attached to armor, called phalerae. Hence, the discipline of studying orders of knighthood and merit, and civil and military decorations in general, became “Phaleristics”.","PeriodicalId":205647,"journal":{"name":"Raven: A Journal of Vexillology","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130633903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Genesis of the “Stars and Bars”","authors":"Cannon","doi":"10.5840/RAVEN2005121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/RAVEN2005121","url":null,"abstract":"On 4 March 1861 the Confederate States of America adopted their first flag. Fifty years later a dispute arose over whether that flag was the creation of Orren Randolph Smith of North Carolina or Nicola Marschall of Alabama. The dispute was never definitively resolved, and partisans of the two claimants continue to debate the matter today. This paper will examine the known history of the selection of the first flag of the Confederate States, the evidence supporting the two claimants, and the possibility that the actual genesis of the Stars and Bars may have arisen from an altogether different source.","PeriodicalId":205647,"journal":{"name":"Raven: A Journal of Vexillology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125831796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constructing Canadian Symbolism: National Identity as Expressed in Canadian Heraldic Authority Grants","authors":"Bruce Patterson, Saguenay Herald","doi":"10.5840/raven2004114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/raven2004114","url":null,"abstract":"I expect that all Raven readers can agree that symbolism is important and that it works best when it is clear, simple, and visually appealing. An important role for visual symbolism is national identity, or how a country expresses itself through visual signs. The mandate of the office where I work, the Canadian Heraldic Authority, is the fostering and development of such an identity through the creation of heraldic emblems. What follows is an examination of grants of armorial bearings and flags made by the Canadian Heraldic Authority over the past 15 years. The focus of our work is on coats of arms, and most of the flags we grant are banners of the arms, or sometimes standards. Before I begin this examination, I shall briefly discuss historical questions of Canadian symbolism.","PeriodicalId":205647,"journal":{"name":"Raven: A Journal of Vexillology","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125157380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two Irish Flags: A Comparative Analysis","authors":"Joseph E. Donovan","doi":"10.5840/RAVEN2004113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/RAVEN2004113","url":null,"abstract":"The island of Ireland is a paradoxical place. The city of Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland, lies at the same latitude as Moscow. However, a driver going down-country towards Limerick or Cork might notice palm trees around Bantry Bay. The southwestern counties catch the Gulf Stream and the climate there is subtropical. (Donegal, the northernmost county, is not part of Northern Ireland but actually belongs instead to the Republic.) The Emerald Isle represents a very old country but two very young nations—one with two flags: the green flag with the gold harp and the tricolor of the Republic, that are a colorful illustration of that contrast.","PeriodicalId":205647,"journal":{"name":"Raven: A Journal of Vexillology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121028051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The First Navy Jack","authors":"Peter Ansoff","doi":"10.5840/RAVEN2004111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/RAVEN2004111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":205647,"journal":{"name":"Raven: A Journal of Vexillology","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131516988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flags Granted by the Canadian Heraldic Authority: An Analytical Profile","authors":"Auguste Vachon","doi":"10.5840/RAVEN200183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/RAVEN200183","url":null,"abstract":"Upon examining the flags of the provinces and territories comprising Canada, one is struck by the repetition of familiar patterns. Ontario and Manitoba have both retained a red ensign with the provincial shield in the fly inspired by the Canadianised red ensigns used as the national flag from circa 1870 to 1965. The provincial or territorial shield is also present: on a monochrome field for Alberta, on a Canadian pale for the Northwest Territories, on a regular pale for the Yukon and spread over the entire field (a banner of the arms) for Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and British Columbia. Newfoundland flies what can be viewed as a reworked version of the union flag (jack), its former provincial flag, while Québec has chosen a version of the merchant marine flag of Royal France. Saskatchewan only has opted for a somewhat less conventional design: the provincial shield in canton of a field parted per fess with the provincial flower over all.","PeriodicalId":205647,"journal":{"name":"Raven: A Journal of Vexillology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126398820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}