A fair number of French dragoon regiments, at periods between the 17th century and the Revolution, had guidons where we do not know the emblems they carried on the reverse. (Quite often in Pierre Charrié's book Drapeaux Et Étendards Du Roi we come across the term "motif inconnu".) As it is unthinkable that a regiment on the wargames table should not have a flag, it has become a sort of tradition that such regiments carry guidons with the sun in splendour motif on both obverse and reverse. These three versions allow such regiments to have a guidon.
I have noted in square brackets above the guidons an example for each of a regiment with a guidon of that colour and the period where the emblem is unknown.
Saturday, 25 May 2024
Generic guidons for French dragoon regiments with no known emblems
Posted by David Morfitt at Saturday, May 25, 2024
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More useful work, David! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jon. :-) They fill a gap, I think.
DeleteAll the best,
David.
Those are splendid David! To round the set off so to speak, would it be possible to have them in white and yellow too?
ReplyDeleteThank you, Steve. :-) Yes, I can do that!
DeleteAll the best,
David.
A very smart threesome of flags.
ReplyDeleteWillz.
Thank you, Willz. :-) Perhaps one day more details of the missing emblems will turn up...
DeleteAll the best,
David.