Delfim Guimarães’ and Roque Gameiro’s proposals for the new portuguese national flag (1910-1911)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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• Proposals for the new portuguese national flag (1910-1911)

Assumed project

The project by Delfim Guimarães and Roque Gameiro was a flag in spanish pattern of red-white-green with a blue armilla in the centre of the white strip and an unusually shaped portuguese shield over the armilla.
Jorge Candeias, 26 Aug 1997

Anonymous project

It is an anonymous project. But, given it's similarities with another project, by Delfim Guimarães and Roque Gameiro, it’s possible that it was proposed by them also, or by one of them. The original drawing shows a quite long flag (which I remade in 1:2) horizontally divided in three colours: red, white and green. The white stripe is about 3-4 times as wide as the other two stripes and contains an emblem, shifted to the hoist, composed of a blue armilli