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![[Yellow over red flag]](../images/l/li_yr.gif)
It is said that until 1921 the flag of Liechtenstein was horizontally
divided yellow-red. This flag is still used locally during festivities.
Ivan Sache, 01 Mar 2001, translating and adapting Roger Baert
in [bat00]
![[Vertical color arrangement]](../images/l/li_vert.gif)
Blue and red have been used as national colours since 1852, either in
vertical or horizontal stripes.
The Journal of Election and Coronation of Emperor Josef II (1764)
confirms that blue and red were the livery colours of the prince’s
servants. The ribbons attaching the seals onto official acts were also
blue and red.
Ivan Sache, 01 Mar 2001, translating and adapting Roger Baert
in [bat00]
In the Grand Larousse Encyclopedique du
XXème siècle (1929), the
flag of Liechtenstein is shown as a vertically divided red/blue.
Ivan Sache, 22 Dec 1998
![[Horizontal color arrangement]](../images/l/li_br.gif)
The fundamental law of 5 October 1921 definitively prescribed the
blue and red horizontal stripes.
Ivan Sache, 01 Mar 2001, translating and adapting Roger Baert
in [bat00]
On 24 June 1937, a yellow bonnet de prince was added in the
blue stripe near the hoist, following the well-known confusion with the
Haitian flag in Berlin
Olympic Games in 1936.
Ivan Sache, 01 Mar 2001, translating and adapting Roger Baert
in [bat00]
Interestingly, Baert [bat00] calls the
crown “bonnet de prince” and not couronne.
Ivan Sache, 01 Mar 2001
![[Liecht. flag in [neu92].]](../images/l/li_1939v.gif)