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Selca is a community in the Split and Dalmatia County on the
eastern end of the island of Brac, off the coat of Makarska, with somewhat less the 2,500
inhabitants, some over 1,000 in the small town of the same name.
The symbols were adopted by the community at some point by the
decision ("Odluka o izgledu i uporabi grba i zastave Opcine
Selca", as cited, without reference to date and issue, in
the following act), and was then on 2 June 2005 appoved by the
Central State Office for Administartion with its act Kl.
UP/I-017-01/04-01/67 Urbr. 515-10/06- 05-4, 2. lipnja 2005.
The coat of arms is azure a hoe and a hammer
both or in saltire infront of an anchor argent. The anchor is a
clear reference to maritime traditions, the hoe to the
agriculture that was main source of living in the island while
the hammer represents the stone-mason's hammers - namely Brac is
the source of the most valued white stone, that is traditionally
mined in the island even since the pre-Roman times.
The flag is blue with the coat of arms bordered yellow in the
middle. The ceremonial flag is not mentioned
in the act of the Office (as usual), it is a blue gonfalon ending
triangularly with godlen fringe with the golden brodered coat of
arms in the middle, inscribed name of the community above and the
branches of olive and vine below.
Information provided by Nikša pl. Kušcic from the
island of Brac.
Željko Heimer, 8 December 2006
Coat of Arms and flag designed by Heraldic Art d.o.o from
Rijeka and approved by the Ministry of Administration/Central
State Office for Administration before 2006.
Željko Heimer, 23 May 2008
The official gazettes are available at the community web site,
those relevant for us being: here
and here.
The decision on the Coat of Arms and flag was Odluka o
donošenju grba i zastave Opcine Selca, 22.11.2004.
Službeni glasnik Opcine Selca, br. 4/2004, 7.12.2004., str.
8-9.
The decision adopts the Coat of Arms, the flag and the gonfalon,
naming the designer "Heraldic art" from Rijeka. The
Coat of Arms is described slightly different then currently used:
azure an anchor argent behind a hoe or with handle argent and a
hammer aso or with handle argent in saltire. The flag is the
same, blue with that Coat of Arms bordered yellow in the middle.
The gonfalon is not described.
Ispravak Odluke donošenja grba i zastave Opcine Selca,
Službeni glasnik Opcine Selca, br. 1/2005, 8.3.2005. str. 3.
In the second next issues of the gazette, the
"correction" of the previous decision was issued,
changing the description of the hoe and hammer to be all or. It
is not clear weather this was a genuine correction of a misprint
(for example, if in the preparation of the previous gazette they
used "copy&paste" from a rejected project
description) or if the change was possibly made after the
intervention or consultation with the central authorities
heraldic commission. We may never know, and the "white handles" version might have never
been in use.
Željko Heimer, 29 August 2009
These charges, thus placed, bear a (presumably unintentional)
similarity to the symbol of the North Korean
Communist Party.
Eugene Ipavec, 29 August 2009
image by Željko Heimer, 8 December 2006
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image by Željko Heimer, 8 December 2006
Flag
image by Željko Heimer, 29 August 2009
Coat of Arms
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image by Željko Heimer, 29 August 2009
Note: The "white handles" version might have never been in use!!! (see above)