Imperial Kriegsflagge

[dcbrown]

Good morning. This is not my area of expertise. But I just acquired this and hoped to get some feedback. The consteuction looks very good to me and it has the aged look it should have. If good, I had two questions. 1) Is this a WWII era issue used for special occasions? 2) what is the meanibg of the "U-29" mark? Thank you for your time and expertise!

[Rakkasan187]

I am not a huge fan of the ink stamps, as these can be easily added to a flag to make it more presentable and believable.

 

The U-29 ink stamp could be for a U-Boat (29). There were a boats designated U-29 (WW1 boat was sunk and all hands were lost on March 18, 1915) the WW2 U-boat U-26 keel was laid in 1936 and during the war saw seven war patrols and was decommissioned after the war and scuttled in May 1945.  I am very skeptical of this being the connection though to the U-boats.

 

I specialize mainly in Third Reich era flags and this is out of my wheelhouse but again I am skeptical about the ink stamps as many original flags have been destroyed with fake ink stamps and markings.

 

Just my thoughts.. I will have to more research on the flags/ink stamps on Imperial Flags

 

Best regards

 

Leigh 

 

 

[Mr.Jerry]

I am not a fan, in fact we have a similar (if not exactly the same) example that we are selling as a reproduction.

https://militarycollectorshq.com/store-catalog/ols/products/reproduction-wwi-german-imperial-battle-flag-item-7719

[dcbrown]

Thanks. I know that these Imperial style flags / ensigns were also produced during WWII. They were required to be flown on a very specific list of special occassions. I thought, perhaps, this was one of those. Thanks a bunch for your time and input gents. I appreciate it.

[Mr.Jerry]

They are close, and you are right about the use of it in the 1930s as a "Traditions" flag, those were generally made out of wool and usually had a distinct black dashed border to the hoist.  Real WWI are very rare, even the 1930s ones are hard to find.

[dcbrown]

Thanks a bunch Mr. Jerry. I appreciate your time.