Building on, and in a way completing, my recent posts on the English/British Guards cavalry are these standards of the Life Guards and Horse Grenadiers of 1702, early in the reign of Queen Anne and using her cipher. As before I refer the reader to the complex accounts of these units on Kronoskaf's War of the Spanish Succession pages. These units unfortunately did not actually serve in the War of the Spanish Succession but their standards may be of use given the paucity of flags for this period. I have recreated these standards from verbal descriptions in the Great Wardrobe Accounts. They add a little variety with a green variant!
Nice to see these variations David and the green standard is very nice. I have enjoyed seeing this series of standards, it has been very interesting seeing the subtle differences over the period.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Donnie. It's good to fill a bit of the void that is this period for English/British flags! :-)
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David.
Beautifully done and that cipher is really rather splendid:)!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Steve. :-) Back to continental flags for a while now!
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David.
Still look fab though!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ray. :-) Better than not having flags at all for units for this period!
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David.
Beautiful flags, thanks for sharing David.
ReplyDeleteWillz.
Thank you, Willz. The relative simplicity of these standards should make them look pretty good even when printed fairly small. :-)
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David.