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History of the Peruvian Flag (1822)

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[Flag of Peru of 1822]
image by António Martins, 01 Nov 2003
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A flag on display at the Fuerte Real Felipe museum in Callao, near Lima, run by the army, shows rather a golden sun with facial features. The guide told me the flags are really old, but I think they are reproductions. The original flags were behind glass. I saw the same flag in a magazine for Peruvian pupils about history: the sun was the same.
Jan-Patrick Fischer, 15 Mar 2001

Detail of the sun

[Sun of Peru of 1822]
image by António Martins, 01 Nov 2003

Incorrect versions

from Hispano American Enciclopaedya and Flaggenbuch 1905

[Flag of Peru of 1822]
image by Jaume Ollé, 10 Nov 2003

I believe that this image is wrong. I checked it and I saw that according the image source only must be red the ring. Furthermore in this era the suns were generally depicted with face (in the source face is not pictured). Source is a plate in the article Peru of the Hispano Americ