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image by Raul Orta, 9 May 2002
This is the Venezuelan Tricolori in 1830, right after the
split of the República de Colombia. It sports the Venezuelan
Coat of Arms under the "Great Colombia" (downward
cornucopias, and a hoist-facing fasces and ax; as opposed to that
of the "Great Colombia" [later adopted by Nueva
Granada], which had upward cornucopias and a fly-facinf fasces
and ax). It was a square flag, to diferentiate itself from those
of Nueva Granada and Ecuador. Later, it adopted the same-width
stripes we know today, for further differentiation).
Guillermo T. Aveledo, 4 November 1999
Provisional Flag of Venezuela, 1830 - It consisted of the Flag
of 1811 in whose center it appeared a Coat of Arms derived from
the Great-Columbian in which the cornucopias were overturning
their fruits towards the base with the inscription ESTADO DE
VENEZUELA (STATE OF VENEZUELA) in occasions and others, the one
of REPÚBLICA DE VENEZUELA (REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA).
Raul Orta, 9 May 2002
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Venezuelan Coat of Arms, 1830
image by Guillermo T. Aveledo, 4 November 1999
Adopted: 14 Octuber 1830 . Abolished: 16 April 1836. Is was
reported also with the shield and inscription in the canton.
Jaume Ollé
State and War Flag
image by Jaume Ollé, 5 October 2003
No. 1041 - Venezuela - War.
Source: [stb62].
Jaume Ollé, 5 October 2003
Presumed Venezuelan State and War Flag (1830): It's a free and
particular interpretation registered in Mr. Steenbergen's book
"Flags of all the Nations", published on 1862 by
Weytingh & Brave Company: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Note the
peculiar configuration of the Coat of Arms on the canton. The
flag is uncertain and subject to further investigation.
Raul Orta, 8 June 2004
War Flag
image by Jaume Ollé, 7 November 2003
No. 1157 - Venezuela - War.
Source: [stb62].
Jaume Ollé, 7 November 2003
Presumed Venezuelan State and War Flag (1830): It's a free and
particular interpretation registered in Mr. Steenbergen's book
"Flags of all the Nations", published on 1862 by
Weytingh & Brave Company: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Note its
similarity with the Uncertain Flag of the General Captainship of Venezuela (1777).
The flag is uncertain and subject to further investigation.
Raul Orta, 8 June 2004
In the flagbook of Mr. W. Wezepoel, from 1862, which is stored
in the Zeeuws Archief in Middelburg.(NL): Venezuela - green with
yellow saltire.
Jarig Bakker and Ned Smith, 30 November 2004
Other Flags According to Steenbergen Book (1862)
image by Jaume Ollé, 27 September 2003
No. 1016 - Venezuela State and Navy/Venezuela Navy (at the
mainmast or mizenmast): General on board.
Source: [stb62].
Jaume Ollé, 27 September 2003
image by Jaume Ollé, 28 September 2003
No. 1038 - Venezuela (at the mainmast): Captain - Commander of
a squadron or in comission.
Source: [stb62].
Jaume Ollé, 28 September 2003
State flag
image by Jaume Ollé
Civil (merchant) ensign
image by Jaume Ollé
Adopted: the shield was changed on 16 April 1836 ; four days
later the stripes were declared to be in the same size.
Jaume Ollé
Concering <homes.acmecity.com>,
This site, and every other source but one that I have seen, shows
that Venezuela's flag has always been a version of the YBR
Miranda flag. The Norrie/Hobbs Flags of All Seafaring Nations,
1848, shows Venezuela's flag as a yellow saltaire on green field
(plate XXIII). I am sure that must an error, but does anyone have
any information or speculation about how that error arose?
Ned Smith , 12 June 1999
Flag of the Republic of Venezuela, 1836 - Decreed by the
National Congress, it consisted from top to bottom of equal and
horizontal strips with colors yellow, blue and red in this order.
The character distinction of the National Flag was established in
addition because is determinate that for official use it would
also bear the Coat of Arms of the Republic and therefore since
then we can affirm the traditional existence of the State
National Flag and the Civil National Flag although its use were
indistinct.
Raul Orta, 9 May 2002
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 September 2008
Flag from SIEGELs flagcharts: Venezuela merchant ensign 1858 -
It is a square splitflag having three tails. The height of the
cut out triangles is estimated 1/5 of total width. The colours
are ordered horizontal red over white over blue. In the fly end
of the white stripe is a yellow 6-point star.
Source: [sig12] flagchart
64; row 1 column 3.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 September 2008
image by Jaume Ollé
Adopted: February 1859 Abolished: June 1859.
Jaume Ollé
Flag of the Federation, February 1859 - The established
Provisional Governing Corp in Coro, city on the Northwest of
Venezuela and present capital of the Falcon State, is gone too
far in its presumed faculties and decrees that the Flag of the
Venezuelan Federation would be the same one of 1836 but with
inclusion of seven five pointed and blue stars on the yellow
stripe in memory of the Provinces that founded the Nation on
1811.
Raul Orta, 9 May 2002
Flags According to Steenbergen Book (1862)
image by Jaume Ollé, 5 October 2003
No. 1042 - Coro, Venezuela.
Source: [stb62].
Jaume Ollé, 28 5 October 2003
Presumed Federal Flag of Coro (1859) : It's a free and
particular interpretation registered in Mr. Steenbergen's book
"Flags of all the Nations", published on 1862 by
Weytingh & Brave Company: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Note the
peculiar disposition of the stars on the canton. The flag is
uncertain and subject to further investigation.
Raul Orta, 8 June 2004
image by Jaume Ollé, 5 October 2003
No. 1043 - Uncaptioned [Must be a variant of Venezuela
federalist].
Source: [stb62].
Jaume Ollé, 5 October 2003
Presumed Federal Flag of Coro (1859) : It's a free and
particular interpretation registered in Mr. Steenbergen's book
"Flags of all the Nations", published on 1862 by
Weytingh & Brave Company: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Note the
white canton and the peculiar disposition of the stars on the
canton. The flag is uncertain and subject to further
investigation.
Raul Orta, 8 June 2004
image by Jaume Ollé
Adopted: June 1859. Abolished: 29 July 1863.
Jaume Ollé
In 1859, the Federation War revolutionaries
resolved that all three bands in the flag had to be even. And
then, changed the number of stars to twenty (in representation of
the 20 federated states of Venezuela).
Jorge V. Alonso-Iglesias
Flag of the Federation, June 1859 - Triumphant in Barinas,
region on the Southwest of Venezuela, General Ezequiel Zamora
commits another excess decreeing that in successive the so called
Federal State; Pavilion would take twenty five pointed and blue
stars: one by each state that would conform the Venezuelan
Federation. At this point the practical object of this Flag and
its antecedent seems clear: to be different itself from which
identified the troops of the Government who took or not the Coat
of Arms and have not stars.
Raul Orta, 9 May 2002
State flag
image by Jaume Ollé , 7 August 1997
Civil (merchant) ensign
image by Jaume Ollé , 7 August 1997
In 1863, Venezuela’s president, Juan
Crisóstomo Falcón decides to restore the seven stars, but this
time, in white and over the blue band. Also, 6 of the stars had
to be placed in a circle, and one in the middle of it.
Jorge V. Alonso-Iglesias
In 1897 : Yellow blue red horizontal with 6 white stars in
circle around the 7th in the middle. W the same with state arms
in canton.
Željko Heimer , 26 September 1996
In a documentary about the river Orenoque, there were images
from the late 50's showing a joint Venezuela-Brazil commission
tagging the border between the two countries. The Venezuelan flag
had an unknown-to-me star pattern, in an hexagonal way (a star on
each vertex of the hexagon, the seventh in the middle of the
hexagon), and no shield near the hoist in the yellow stripe. Was
it a variant of the national flag ?"
Ivan Sache, 4 August 1997
The flag that was described is an old pattern. Was adopted 29
July 1863 by order of General Falcon. Was in use since 28 March
1905 when another General, Cipriano Castro, changed a little the
pattern: the central star was arranged in circle togheter the
rest. They are above. The state flag bear the shield in the upper
hoist
Jaume Ollé, 7 August 1997
This pattern was obsolete by the 1950's. The 1917 National
Geographic magazine Flag Number shows the Venezuelan national
flag with the stars arranged in a cluster as Ivan described. The
Ensign was the same except the arms are in the upper left corner.
The 1934 NatGeo flag issue,however, shows the current star
pattern of the arch. The description in that issue says that it
was recently adopted. (The USNavy's 1929 International Code of
Signals has plates of flags of the world, and the stars are
clustered in the center of Venezuela's flag in that book, too.)
Smith's 1975 FTTAAATW is silent on the adoption date of the
current star arrangement.
Nick Artimovich, 6 August 1999
At "Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustre" (1924),
Venezuela flag looks like the 1863 version. It does not have the
stars near the hoist.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 29 October 2000
Flag of Venezuela, 1863 - Field Marshal Juan Crisóstomo
Falcon, in exercise of the Presidency of the Republic, emits a
decree signed by all his ministers in whom he establishes that
the National flag would be yellow, blue and red in equal and
horizontal strips with seven five pointed and white stars
disposed on the center of the blue stripe: six in hexagon and
seventh in the middle, reserving the addition of the National
Coat of Arms only to the one of Official Use.
Raul Orta, 9 May 2002
All 50 Player's cigarettes 1905 cards of the series Countries
Arms & Flags [g9b05] are
on line at <digitalgallery.nypl.org>.
For Venezuela, the card
shows an equal horizontal tricolor with seven stars clustered in
three staggered columns (2+3+2) placed very near the hoist.
António Martins, 22 February 2007
image by Raul Orta, 15 May 2002
Flag of Tribute, (1876): This design was made as a special
homage of the resident English Colony in Caracas with regard to
the transfer of the rest of El Libertador from the Cathedral to
the National Pantheon in Caracas. Consist in a horizontal
tricolor yellow, blue and red that reproduces one of the projects
of Coat of Arms for the Great Colombia, which appear since 1821
on the yellow stripe. The illustration is a representation of the
original one that still is conserved in the Bolivarian Museum of
Caracas.
Raul Orta, 15 May 2002
State flag
image by Jaume Ollé
Civil (merchant) ensign
image by Jaume Ollé
Adopted: 28 March 1905. Abolished: 10 February 1954, when the
current flag was adopted.
Jaume Ollé
In 1905, President Cipriano Castro orders to place the 7 stars
in circle.
Jorge V. Alonso-Iglesias
Between 1913 and 1941: a yellow, blue and red horizontal
tricolor with the arms in the canton and seven stars toward the
hoist on the blue stripe with six surrounding the seventh. On the
merchant ensign the state arms are absent.
Nathan Augustine , 5 December 1995
Flag of the United States of Venezuela, 1905 - The President
of the Republic, General Cipriano Castro, decrees that the
National flag would take stars in circumference, maintaining its
distinction of character.
Raul Orta, 9 May 2002
Flags in 1926 Flaggenbuch
War and State Flag
image by Željko Heimer, 6 September 2003
National and Merchant Flag
image by Željko Heimer, 6 September 2003
In the 1926 Flaggenbuch:
- War and State Flag (2:3 - In square form: Presidential Standard) - The
Flaggenbuch showes the 1905 design that lasted until 1930, with
seven stars in circle. The Coat of Arms is in artistic details
different from the current one (which is not unusual, and
probably acceptable variation), but the inscription on the
ribbons is not what was ever actually used, I believe
INDEPENDENCIA / LIBERTAD
(date) / (date)
DIOS Y FEDERACION
The dates might be read too, but I dificultly, and I am sure that
these would be the same as today. Was this Coat of Arms ever
official?
Accoerding to Christan Siemer's site, the Coat of Arms should
have included stars in an arch above the cornucopias, and
inscription in the lowest ribbon EE. UU. DE VENEZUELA.
And an other thing, the ribbons seems to be blue-white-red
tribands, but this may be just a printing effect.
- National and Merchant Flag (2:3) - This one without the Coat of
Arms.
Željko Heimer, 6 September 2003
image by Raul Orta, 15 May 2002
image by Raul Orta, 15 May 2002
Flag of the Falke's Expeditionary Corps (1929): The
conspirators that under the command of Admiral Roman Delgado
Chalbaud tried to take Cumana (city located at the North-West of
Venezuela) with the purpose of initiating a revolt to overthrow
the regime of General Juan Vicente Gomez, were organized in
battalions identified with flags whose design we reconstructed in
the graphic: on the obverse, the field appears divided on three
diagonal stripes: yellow, blue and red, bearing in the middle of
blue a constellation of seven white stars - six in hexagon and
one at the center - while the National Coat of Arms with a yellow
pennant and crested with stars appears on the superior canton
near the staff, complementing itself with the word
"LIBERTAD" (Liberty) on the yellow stripe and the word
"JUSTICIA" (Justice) on the red stripe, both
embroidered in gold and made in capital roman letters. To
reverse, naturally divided in the same colors disposed on
inverted sense appear the motto "HONOR Y PATRIA"
(Honour and Homeland) and the denomination of the Battalion Nr.
6, in this case - also embroidered in gold and inscribed in the
same type of letters already mentioned.
Raul Orta, 15 May 2002
