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As shown in Flaggenbuch 1905
by Ralf Stelter
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The first image is the flag shown in Ruhl c.1900 (the next edition, Ruhl c.1902, does not show any company flags). Ruhl showed the letters DWAC for Deutsch-Westafrikanische Compagnie (although in the text he writes '...Gesellschaft').
The second version is redrawn after Flaggenbuch 1905. That book was also made (compiled and printed) by Moritz Ruhl. This time he shows DWAG but writes '...Compagnie'. The letters have slightly changed, but I am quite sure that the main thing was that it is a Serif with heavy serifs (Egyptienne, as we call it).
The third image is drawn after a picture in a collectors' card album (around 1935). The cards album flag has the letters DWAG for Deutsch-Westafrikanische Gesellschaft.
I haven't yet found another source to confirm the correctness of either flag, nor do I have information at hand about the company. Possibly the cross had changed over the time, similar to the cross in the German naval flag, possibly variants were used — or not. I don't know. I'll try to find some information on the company, which had its seat at Berlin. Possibly the flag was used in Togo and Cameroon similarly to the East African Company flag in the East, as a kind of state flag.
Ralf Stelter, 25 January 2001