This page is part of an mirror of © FOTW Flags Of The World website
This website is devoted to the science of vexillology (the study of flags).
All illustrations presented on this website serve exclusively to provide information in the context of vexillology.
The authors and hosts of this site explicitly distance themselfes from any symbols of unconstitutional organizations that may be depicted here.
Last modified: 2024-06-15 by ian macdonald
Keywords: roundel |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 23 April 2024
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 23 April 2024 and Tomislav Todorovic,
3 May 2024
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 3 May 2024
Variant with white background disc, smaller central blue disc, wider white
ring and no stars; the mirror-image of the whole device was sometimes used as
well.
Source:
https://www.drareg.nl/Markeringen/Landen/brazilie%20ww2.htm
(photo 1:
https://www.drareg.nl/Markeringen/Landen/Brazil%20history/Brazil%20WW2/brazil%20b-25-1.jpg
photo 2:
https://www.drareg.nl/Markeringen/Landen/Brazil%20history/Brazil%20WW2/brazil%20b-25-2.jpg
photo 3:
https://www.drareg.nl/Markeringen/Landen/Brazil%20history/Brazil%20WW2/brazil%20b-25.jpg)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 3 May 2024
The device without the stars was also used without a background disc, as in
the current roundel.
Source:
https://www.drareg.nl/Markeringen/Landen/brazilie%20ww2.htm
(photo:
https://www.drareg.nl/Markeringen/Landen/Brazil%20history/Brazil%20WW2/brazil%20P-40.jpg)
Clearly, not much care was taken to paint all the details of the roundel as
long as the whole was recognizable enough, which explains why it was eventually
simplified to the present design.
Tomislav Todorovic, 3 May 2024
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 23 April 2024
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 23 April 2024
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 23 April 2024
images by Nozomi Kariyasu, 12 May 2024
Advertisement from our sponsor:
Bei Fahnenversand.de erhalten Sie eine Vielzahl an hochwertigen Flaggen, Pins und Aufnähern, zum Beispiel:
