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Vatican (Holy See) - Swiss Guard (web links)

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The bibliography page at <www.schweizergarde.info> shows every piece of news ever published about the Vatican Swiss Guard (or at least some of it... ;-) Here's where the flags are shown:
Flag display and depiction:

Cover of book: Die päpstliche Schwizergarde
Black, red and white dual tone ill.
Upper hoist: John Paul II;
Here is the central emblem.
Cover of book: La Garde Suisse Pontificale
Same as above.
Schweizer Illustrierte #21 (1968)
Close up of flag cloth: "damascus" pattern visible.
Cover of book: Die päpstliche Schweizergarde
Close up of flag cloth: "damascus" pattern visible.
From the book: Les Suisses au Service Étranger et leur Musée
by J.-R. Bory, chapter Salle du Service Pontifical (fig.246): flag cloth in museum wall display (hoist down!); details unknown. Maybe this one of those mentioned by Todd Mills so it would be one of the Pfyffer d'Altishofen flags: 1942-1957, 1972-1978, 1978 or 1978-1982.
From article: Die päpstliche Schweizergarde
At Sie und Er magazine of 1944.
Flag bearer, posing, with fully visible flag:
Upper hoist: Pius XII arms;
Here is the central emblem.
2002-2005 flag
Upper hoist: John Paul II arms; center: Lt.-Cap. E. Th. Mäder arms.
2002-2005 flag - detail of the center
Lt.-Cap. E. Th. Mäder arms.
1963-1972 flag
Upper hoist: Paul VI arms; center: Lt.-Cap. O. R. Nünlist arms.

March and parade:

Cover of Schweizer Soldat of November 1998
Flag partly visible; drummers and halberdiers marching.
From Schweizer Illustrierte #21 (1968)
Flag partly visible; drummers and halberdiers marching.
From Schweizer Illustrierte #21 (1968)
Flag partly visible; drummers and halberdiers marching.
Photo in Vaterland magazine article (1956)
Flag partly visible; halberdiers marching.
From article Die päpstliche Schweizergarde in Sie und Er magazine of 1944
Flag partly visible; halberdiers marching.
From article Nach 400 Jahren in der Sonntag #24/8 (12 June 1927), Olten;
Flag partly visible; halberdiers marching.
From article Le Milizie Pontificie in L'Illustrazione Italiana #49 (supl.)
Flag partly visible; halberdiers in parade.
From article Nach 400 Jahren in der Sonntag #24/8 (12 June 1927), Olten;
Flag partly visible; halberdiers in parade.
From article in Sonntagsblatt des Vaterland #22/1, Luzern (1913)
Flag hadly visible; guard in parade; probably one of the last documents showing the previous flag pattern.
New recruit swear-in cerimony:
Cover of Il Vaticano
Flag partly visible; recruit swearing in.
From Schweizer Illustrierte #21 (1968)
Flag partly visible; recruit swearing in.
Photo in Der Spiegel #20/11 magazine (15 May 1957)
Flag partly visible; recruit swearing in.
Photo in der Sonntag magazine (6 May 1956), Olten
Flag partly visible; recruit swearing in.
Photo in Vaterland magazine (1956)
Flag partly visible; recruit swearing in.
Photo in unidentified magazine article Die päpstliche Garde
by Leonard von Matt, Buochs» (1 August 1952)
Flag partly visible; recruit swearing in.
Cover of Im Dienste des Papstes
by Hauptmann A. Gahlinger - 1951.
Flag partly visible; recruit swearing in.
Cover of Der Scheitzer Gardist im Vatikan
by Hauptmann A. Gahlinger - 1951.
Same photo.
Cover of Die päpstliche Schweizergarde
Flag partly visible; recruit swearing in.
From Schweizer Illustrierte #21 (1968)
Flag partly visible; recruit swearing in.
Paiting by Fred Fay in book La Garde fidèle du Saint-Père: Les soldates suisses au service du Vatican de 1506 a nos jours
by Prof. Dr. Gaston Castella (Clé d'Or, Paris 1935).
Flag partly visible; recruit swearing in.
From article Arbeitslos (?!) in Sonntagsblatt des Vaterland (9 June 1927)
Flag partly visible; recruit swearing in.
From postcard album Paepstliche Schweizergarde Guarde Suisse Pontificale
by Sansaini, Rome ~1926.
Flag partly visible; recruit swearing in.
From article Herrgottsrosen in Sonntagsblatt des Vaterland #22/III, Luzern (1915)
Flag partly visible; recruit swearing in; probably the first use of the current flag pattern: "neue Uniform mit dem ausgeschnittenen Kragen"...

Other cerimonial display:

Page from Schweizer Soldat #11/76
Flag partly visible; flag bearer kneeling.
Schweizer Illustrierte #21 (1968)
flag partly visible; papal address (Paul VI); Here is the central emblem.
Cover of The Papal Forces
by Captain F. R. Mellor.
Painting showing two guards in the current "Michelangelo" uniform and a pre-1914 flag.
Plate 5 from the book La Guardia Svizzera (series Curiosità Romane)
by E. Ponti (1928) (incl. ref. to Luigi Hirschbühl i.e., Lt.-Cap. Alois Hirschbühl, 1921-1935.
Flag partly visible, hoisted in a slanted pole fixed indoors near the Bronze Gate.

Other images:

From the book Les Suisses au Service Étranger et leur Musée
by J.-R. Bory, chapter: Salle du Service Pontifical - (fig.245) - Monochrome plate showing 18 flag bearers with as many swiss cantonal flags: not necessarily related to the Vatican Guard.
From the book Les Suisses au Service Étranger et leur Musée
by J.-R. Bory, chapter: Salle du Service Pontifical - (fig.243) - Apparently an early design (Pope Julius II is shown on the same page).
Postcard and postage stamp
Issued in 1956 (Swiss Guard 450th ann.) showing the Swiss Coat of Arms between two golden edged testa di cavallo shields (just like on the flag) bearing the arms of Julius II and Pius XII.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 June 2005

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