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![[Presidential
Standard of Brazil]](../images/b/br_presi.gif)
by Ivan Sarajcic
Flags Through the Ages and Across the World
shows an illustration of the Presidential flag of Brazil on page 217 (ratio
2:3) but specifies no dates. Maybe others have more information.
C. Eugene Baldwin, 23 September 1998
The coat of arms seems to be about 3/4 of hoist in height. According to
Album des
Pavillons, 2000 and
the Brazilian Navy Ceremonial
Manual, it seems that the version used, at least in the Brazilian Navy is actually 3:4.
Zeljko Heimer, 21 March 2001
Two old sources show a different version of the Brazilian President's standard,
with the coat of arms offset toward the hoist, its center line lying on about one-third of the way from the
hoist to the fly. I found this in the British Admiralty's 1907
Flags in Use at the Present Time and the
1905 German Navy Flaggenbuch. By the time of the 1914
U.S. Navy Flags of
Maritime Nations, the coat of arms is shown centered as at present, the only difference
from the modern flag being the inscription on
the ribbon of the coat of arms, Estados Unidos do Brasil rather than República Federativa
do Brasil. No presidential flag is shown at all in the 1899 edition of
Flags of Maritime Nations. So the timeframe for the off-center coat of arms would appear
to be circa 1900 to circa 1910.
Joseph McMillan, 18 April 2001
![[Vice President of Brazil]](../images/b/br-vp.gif)
by Jordi Pérez
According to a no-longer-active page on the Brazilian presidential website the
flag of the Vice-President of Brazil is officially described as follows:
Santiago Dotor, 17 November 2000, translated by Joseph McMillanDecree No. 69,026 of 6 August 1971 approved and officially ordered to be adopted the flag (bandeira-insígnia) of the Vice President of the Republic.
The use of the flag of the Vice President of the Republic will follow the Brazilian Navy Ceremonial, the Armed Forces Regulation on Salutes, Honors, and Signs of Respect, and appropriate regulations. The characteristics of the flag of the Vice President of the Republic will be the following: a rectangular flag, the longer side of which is one and a half times the shorter; the color the yellow of the national flag; twenty-three blue stars disposed in a cross dividing the flag into four equal quadrants; the arms of the cross with 15 stars in the direction of the length and nine in the width, equally spaced in both arms; the star situated in the center of the cross coinciding with the center of the flag; in the middle of the upper left quadrant, the arms of the Republic in the colors established by Decree No. 4, of 19 November 1889.
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